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n. 1. One that receives or is given something: recipients of the award. 2. One who receives blood, tissue, or an organ from a donor. adj. Functioning as a receiver; receptive. [Latin recipiēns, recipient-, present participle of recipere, to receive; see receive.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. n a person who or thing that receives adj a less common word for receptive [C16: via French from Latin recipiēns, from recipere to receive] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 n. 1. one that receives; receiver. 2. receiving or able to receive. [1550–60; < Latin recipient-, recipiēns, present participle of recipere to receive; see -ent] re•cip′i•ence, re•cip′i•en•cy, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
acquirer - a person who acquires something (usually permanently) addressee - one to whom something is addressed alienee, grantee - someone to whom the title of property is transferred annuitant - the recipient of an annuity assignee - (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) beneficiary, donee - the recipient of funds or other benefits borrower - someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent conferee - a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..." consignee - the person to whom merchandise is delivered over dependant, dependent - a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) grantee - a recipient of a grant heir, heritor, inheritor - a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another honoree - a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments host - (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor mandatary, mandatory - the recipient of a mandate payee - a person to whom money is paid protege - a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career sendee - the intended recipient of a message transferee - (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed warrantee - a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002Noun 1. recipient - a person who receives something 2. recipient - the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
مُتَسَلِّم، مُتَلَقٍّمُسْتَلِم παραλήπτηςαποδέκτηςλήπτης receptorrecipientedestinatario bénéficiairedestinatairerécipiendairerécipient [rɪˈsɪpɪənt] N [of letter, gift] → destinatario/a m/f Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005 Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007 [rɪˈsɪpɪənt] n (of letter) → destinatario/a; (of cheque) → beneficiario/a; (of award) → assegnatario/a Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995 Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd. Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009 1. n. receptor, vasija, recipiente; 2. paciente que recibe una transfusión, un implante de tejido u órgano de un donante; [as in an organ receiver]; 3. receptor, [mail] destinatario. English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012 n (of a transfusion, transplant, etc.) receptor -ra mf (de una transfusión, un trasplante, etc.) English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Rosa looked at him as if she would have liked him to be the recipient of a thousand dedications.
As my eyes met theirs I was, for the second time, the recipient of their zealously guarded applause.
Some years later, the second mate, the recipient of that almost involuntary mutter, could have told his captain that a man brought up in big ships may yet take a peculiar delight in what we should both then have called a small craft.
He knew much more than Philip, both of the world and of books; he was a much older man; and the readiness of his conversation gave him a certain superiority; but he was in the hospital a recipient of charity, subject to strict rules; and he held himself between the two positions with ease and humour.
He gave me some letters of introduction, in the name, I think, of my travelling companion; they bore reference to a supposititious little boy who had been left with a widowed mother who didn't know what to do with him; the poor lady had thought, as a means of thawing the tardy compassion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a Yorkshire school; I was the poor lady's friend, travelling that way; and if the recipient of the letter could inform me of a school in his neighbourhood, the writer would be very much obliged.
When I went back on the morrow the little maidservant conducted me straight through the long sala(it opened there as before in perfect perspective and was lighter now, which I thought a good omen) into the apartment from which the recipient of my former visit had emerged on that occasion.
Thus, for example, the individual who defiled a drinking-place would be attacked by every onlooker, while one who deliberately gave a false alarm was the recipient of much rough usage at our hands.
How he, the recipient of that letter, was directly led to the belief that these must be the very wanderers for whom so much search had been made, and whom Heaven had directed to his brother's care.
The recipient party, invested with power, is the United Colonies, declared United States.
You would not value such an offer, or envy the recipient of it?"
A leather thong over one shoulder supported the ever present Geeka who was still the recipient of her most sacred confidences.
Let it suffice to say, blood obtained from a still living animal, in most cases from a human being, was run directly by means of a little pipette into the recipient canal.