Recipient

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Functioning as a receiver; receptive.
  • n. One that receives or is receptive.
  • n. One who receives blood, tissue, or an organ from a donor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
  • n. An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
  • n. The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
  • adj. Receiving; receptive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Receiving; receptive; acting or serving as a receiver; capable of receiving or taking in.
  • n. A receiver or taker; especially, one who receives or accepts something given or communicated; a taker of that which is offered or bestowed: as, recipients of charity or of public education; the recipients of the eucharist.
  • n. That which receives; formerly, the receiver in an apparatus or instrument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who receives something
  • n. the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    receiver    receiving    receptive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    incipient    percipient   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    donor    winner    bearer    rejection    possessor    purchaser    applicant    sender    receipt    beneficiary