# pantkvitto
## Swedish
### Etymology

Compound of pant (“[container] deposit”) +‎ kvitto (“reciept”). First attested in 1885.

### Noun

pantkvitto c
* A pawn receipt, a pawn ticket; a receipt received by pawning an item at a pawnbroker, which can later be used to regain that item (unless it's already sold). [since 1885]
    Synonyms: pantbrev, pantsedel
** 1871 July 12, “240 procent! [240 per cent!]”, in Nerikes Allehanda, page 2:Se här till exempel ett pantkvitto från honom, hwilket tillfälligtwis fallit i wåra händer: […]Behold, for instance, a deposit receipt from him, which has temporarily fallen into our hands: […]
** 1898, Hjalmar Wernberg, Vackra Marie, page 270:Och jag kan icke lösa den tillbaka, ty jag har inte något pantkvitto . . .And I cannot redeem it, for I have no pawn ticket . . .
** 1956, Karl Gerhard, Katt bland hermeliner, page 76:På den vägg vid vilken flygeln haft sin plats var ett pantkvitto fastnaglat. Nedanför var pianostolen placerad.On the wall where the piano had been positioned, a pawn ticket was pinned. Below it was the piano stool.
* A reverse vending machines receipt; a receipt from a reverse vending machine that will be exchanged for money at a register, earned by returning containers that have a container deposit.
** 1984 February 29, Svenska Dagbladet, page 2:[…] form och spotta ut ett svårförfalskat pantkvitto åt kunden […] återvinning och för att åstadkomma ett pantkvitto åt kunden av samma typ som de […] […] form and spit out a hard-to-forge deposit receipt for the customer […] recycling and to provide a deposit receipt for the customer of the same type as the […]
** 2019 July 23, Annsofie Wieland, “Pantkvitton stals från Lions i Båstad [Deposit receipts stolen from Lions in Båstad]”, in Helsingborgs Dagblad:När ansvariga på Lions i Båstad skulle tömma sin behållare för pantkvitton på Ica i veckan gick det inte så bra. Hela anordningen visade sig vara borta. Väggfästena var avsågade och pantkvitton som Båstadborna skänkt sedan midsommar borta.When those in charge at Lions in Båstad went to empty their container for deposit receipts at Ica this week, things didn’t go as planned. The entire setup was gone. The wall mounts had been sawn off, and deposit receipts donated by Båstad residents since midsummer had disappeared.
** 2021 March 23, Ove Kaufeldt, “Så får du panten direkt till bankkontot – ny app sköter funktionen [How to get your deposit directly to your bank account – new app handles the function]”, in Mobil.se:Snart kan det komma att vara slut med pantkvitton eftersom Pantamera tillsammans med företaget Payer har utvecklat en ny tjänst som gör att du kan få panten insatt direkt på ditt bankkonto.Soon, it may be the end of deposit receipts as Pantamera, together with the company Payer, has developed a new service that allows you to have the deposit transferred directly to your bank account.

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | pantkvitto | pantkvittos |
| singular | definite | pantkvittot | pantkvittots |
| plural | indefinite | pantkvitton | pantkvittons |
| plural | definite | pantkvittona | pantkvittonas |

### See also

* pantmaskin (“reverse vending machine”)

### References

* 1 2 pantkvitto in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)