food stamp

food stamp

English

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

Related terms

• electronic benefit transfer
• ration card
• ration stamp
• ration coupon
• revenue stamp
• yuppie food stamp

Translations

stamp or similar issued to be exchanged for food, or other essential provisions

Chinese: Mandarin: 食品券 (shípǐnquàn), (as used for a time in the PRC) 糧票／粮票 (zh) (liángpiào) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ruokakuponki (fi), elintarvikekortti French: ticket de rationnement m German: Essensmarke (de) f Hungarian: élelmiszerjegy (hu) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “food stamp”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “food stamp”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “food stamp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “food stamp” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.