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From vouch +‎ -er. The verb is from the noun.

voucher (plural vouchers)

  1. A piece of paper or other token that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
    Synonym: coupon
    a voucher for a free kettle
    This voucher entitles the bearer to a 20% discount on frozen goods.
    • 1973 December 8, “The Homophile Health Service”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 7:
      Today, clients who cannot afford the reasonable rates are able to join a work-voucher system in which they agree to work for an hour helping the HCHS staff for each hour of service received.
  2. A receipt.
  3. One who or that which vouches.
    • 1836, The New Sporting Magazine, (Please provide the book title or journal name), 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.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      She is my sister—my own father’s daughter. Well; why do I believe it? The other day I had not so much as heard the remotest rumor of her existence; and what has since occurred to change me? What so new and incontestable vouchers have I handled? None at all.
  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.

a piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher

voucher

  1. voucher (coupon that can be exchanged for goods or services, typically used of prepaid services such as restaurants, accommodation or transportation)
    Synonyms: kuponki, etuseteli
    hotellivoucher ― hotel voucher

Borrowed from English voucher.

voucher m (invariable)

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

voucher

  1. alternative form of vochier

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.

| | simple | compound | | | | | | | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | infinitive | voucher | avoir vouché | | | | | | | gerund | en vouchant | gerund of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | present participle | vouchant | | | | | | | | past participle | vouché | | | | | | | | person | singular | plural | | | | | | | first | second | third | first | second | third | | | | indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | | | simpletenses | present | vouche | vouches | vouche | vouchons | vouchez | vouchent | | imperfect | vouchoie, voucheie, vouchoe, voucheve | vouchoies, voucheies, vouchoes, voucheves | vouchoit, voucheit, vouchot, voucheve | vouchiiens, vouchiens | vouchiiez, vouchiez | vouchoient, voucheient, vouchoent, vouchevent | | | preterite | vouchai | vouchas | voucha | vouchames | vouchastes | voucherent | | | future | voucherai | voucheras | vouchera | voucherons | voucheroiz, vouchereiz, voucherez | voucheront | | | conditional | voucheroie, vouchereie | voucheroies, vouchereies | voucheroit, vouchereit | voucheriiens, voucheriens | voucheriiez, voucheriez | voucheroient, vouchereient | | | compoundtenses | present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | | | simpletenses | present | vouche | vouches | vouche | vouchons | vouchez | vouchent | | imperfect | vouchasse | vouchasses | vouchast | vouchissons, vouchissiens | vouchissoiz, vouchissez, vouchissiez | vouchassent | | | compoundtenses | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | | | — | vouche | — | vouchons | vouchez | — | | |

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher.

voucher m inan

  1. coupon, voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services)
    Synonyms: bon, kupon, kwit, talon

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher.

voucher m (plural vouchers)

  1. voucher, coupon (a piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount)
    Synonyms: vale, cupão

voucher m (plural vouchers or **voucher)

  1. voucher