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food stamp

food stamp noun: a stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit.

Noun

food stamp (plural food stamps)

  1. A stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit.
    • The authorities claim they turned from unemployment checks to food stamps to avoid alcoholics wasting their families' allowances in pubs.
    • The bill extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and includes new spending for border security and the military. Republicans aimed to offset these costs with cuts to programmmes^([sic]) such as Medicaid, food stamps and green-energy tax credits.2025 June 3, David Smith, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2025

Forms of food stamp

pluralfood stamps

Words formed from food stamp

Questions about food stamp

What does food stamp mean?
Food stamp means a stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit.
What part of speech is food stamp?
Food stamp is a noun.
What is the plural of food stamp?
The plural of food stamp is food stamps.

Words near food stamp in the dictionary

  1. food security
  2. food service
  3. food shop
  4. food shops
  5. food sovereignty
  6. food stamp
  7. food stamps
  8. food steamer
  9. food steamers
  10. food street
  11. food streets

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