recipient
noun [ C ]
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Meaning of recipient in English
recipient | Intermediate English
(Definition of recipient from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
recipient | Business English
recipient
noun [ C ]
uk
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a recipient of sth They are the country's biggest recipient of government funds.
The recipient organization is responsible for monitoring expenditure.
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Examples of recipient
recipient
That said, the item's unique enough that your recipient should be okay with waiting.
From Huffington Post
A few recipients of the government funds have hit hard times.
From CNN
Recipients have five years to schedule their ceremony.
From Huffington Post
Most people find it very hard that this interest rate does any good to poor people who are the recipients.
From NPR
Put yourself in the shoes of the recipient, and read your email again.
From Fast Company
Researchers have also found high rates of depression among recipients of welfare, for example.
From The Atlantic
Last year, researchers found that 75 percent of robocall recipients listened to at least 19 seconds of their robo-messages.
From Wired
Or what if food-stamp recipients felt too stigmatized to shop?
From Washington Post
Most often, elderly recipients are very happy to be serenaded.
From OregonLive.com
Your recipient might never know that you sent that report from the stall, but you will.
From Huffington Post
She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, which she now regards as her life's calling.
From The Atlantic
Maximum payments are capped well below most recipients' prior wages.
From CNN
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Collocations with recipient
recipient
These are words often used in combination with recipient.
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current recipient
Thus, even though the same agent receives the same fact from different sources, they have traversed different channels of agents to reach the current recipient.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
intended recipient
The man specifies the intended recipient of the sperm.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
net recipient
Older people who were net recipients of support from their children or grandchildren tended to be aged 70 or more years, female and widowed.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of recipient
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alıcı, alan kimse…
récipiendaire [masculine-feminine], bénéficiaire [masculine-feminine], récipiendaire…
příjemce…
modtager…
penerima…
ผู้รับ…
người nhận…
odbior-ca/czyni, laureat/ka…
penerima…
der Empfänger / die Empfängerin…
mottager [masculine], mottaker…
одержувач…
получатель…
ricevente, destinatario…
