stamp n A printed slip pasted on government form administered by an employer, recording amount of unemployment benefits due to employee, esp a fisherman; FISHING STAMP.
1955 Handbook on Unemployment Insurance 5 Your employer buys unemployment insurance stamps
through the post office, so as to record in your insurance book the combined contributions made by him as
employer and by you as employee... If you find that your emplover has not put stamps in your book as
required, or that stamps have been placed in error in your book, advise the local office. 1966 FARIS 143 The
method of assessing a man's eligibility for Unemployment benefits is based on having a sufficient number of
'stamps,' which are issued him by the buyer each time he sells or ships codfish, lobsters, salmon or seal. 1975
GUY 129 I'm only a fisherman myself, although I didn't get enough stamps last year. P 192-79 When cod oil
was [being bought] for around forty dollars a barrel, you'd get a week's stamps for it when you'd settle up in
the fall of the year.
