recipient
adjEtymology Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).
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receiving
recipient
noun/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ · /ɹɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).
1
One who receives.
- the recipient of money or goods
- My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
1 more example
- And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
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Medicine, Sciences A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
- Antonyms
- giver
- Derived terms
- corecipient, geniculorecipient, multirecipient, nonrecipient, recipientship, retinorecipient, subrecipient
- Hypernyms
- person