recipient

UK /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ US /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/

noun 3adj 1

Definitions

noun

One who receives.

the recipient of money or goods

My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.

A person receiving donor organs or tissues.

The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

adj

receiving

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

largest

main, major

intended

The letter was mailed to the wrong address, so it never reached its intended recipient.

ultimate

After several transfers, the charity was the ultimate recipient of the donated funds.

suitable

The hospital worked hard to find a suitable recipient for the donated heart.

passive

The students were passive recipients of lectures without any chance to ask questions or discuss ideas.

grateful

My grandmother was a grateful recipient of the scholarship that paid for her university education.

unwilling

lucky

The lucky recipient of the scholarship was announced at the school assembly yesterday.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a person who receives something

receiver

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

the recipient of money or goods

Wiktionary

My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.

Wiktionary

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 s

Wiktionary

The largest recipient of Japan's ODA that year was China.

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A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient, as the name suggests, is for delivering a bag of printed matter.

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Her request never reached its intended recipient.

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