different between voucher vs toucher

English

Etymology

vouch +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?t??(?)

Noun

voucher (plural vouchers)

1. A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
2. A receipt.
3. One who or that which vouches.
   • 1836, The New Sporting Magazine (volume 11, page 227)

     To the fashionable world he cannot be a stranger […] and his having married a sister of the Duke of Leeds is a voucher for my assertion.

4. (advertising) A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
   • 2014, Nigel Linacre, Advertising for Account Holders (RLE Marketing) (page 9)

     Most agencies also have a vouchers department. It is its responsibility to obtain a copy of every advertisement that appears in print. It supplies the accounts department with the relevant newspaper or magazine, which is affixed to the agency's invoice for the space.

5. (historical) A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.

Synonyms

• (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount): coupon

Derived terms

• gift voucher

Translations

Verb

voucher (third-person singular simple present vouchers, present participle vouchering, simple past and past participle vouchered)

1. (transitive) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
2. (transitive) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
3. (transitive) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.

Related terms

• vouch

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vau?.t??er/, [?väu?t??er?]
• Hyphenation: vou?cher

Noun

voucher m (invariable)

1. voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount)

Old French

Verb

voucher

1. Alternative form of vochier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Spanish

Noun

voucher m (plural vouchers or voucher)

1. voucher

English

Etymology

From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch +? -er. The pejorative sense is derived from the sense of "touching" someone for money.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Noun

toucher (plural touchers)

1. One who touches.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     We just twist up Chancery Lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes' time, as near as a toucher.

2. (bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack.
3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.

Anagrams

• Hectour, hectour, retouch

French

Etymology

From Middle French toucher, from Old French tochier, from Vulgar Latin *tucc? (“to strike; to touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.?e/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: touchai, touché, touchée, touchées, touchers, touchés, touchez

Noun

toucher m (plural touchers)

1. The act of touching (see below).
2. A way of touching.
3. The sense of touch, tactility.

Verb

toucher

1. (transitive) To touch (physically).

2. (transitive) To affect

3. (intransitive, followed by "à") To try, to try out.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) Short for toucher sa bille. To be skillful.

5. (transitive, money, income) to receive, to get

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: toucheren

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “toucher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Verb

toucher

1. to touch

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: toucher