recipient
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3.7
- noun
- /rɪˈsɪpiənt/
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beneficiario
- During this period, Taiwan was a net recipient of foreign direct investment from advanced countries.
- award recipients
- grant recipients
- aid recipients
Really, he was the recipient of all those leaked videos.
- Really, he was the recipient of all those leaked videos.
- They are overwhelmingly the recipients of the vouchers.
- Within days, the recipient paid the entire amount back in full.
- OK, so you as the giver know the recipient, but the recipient doesn't know who gave.
- So before they do the transplant, doctors give the recipient stress hormones.
- And the recipients are relatively inert.
- I'm a recipient of an ERC Advanced Research grant.
- So take those precious eggs of yours and figure out who the worthy recipients in your life are.
- I was the the recipient of so much carried shame.
Examples
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China today is the largest recipient of foreign direct investment.
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Gale was a recipient of this scholarship.
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Within days, the recipient paid the entire amount back in full.
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I would like to ask the award recipients to come forward at this time.
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Leonard is a recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America.
Academic text (2011) -
At camp, he was popular with the girls, constantly a recipient of their glares and giggles.
Fiction book (2000) -
The little homeless children were to be the recipients of a fortune in trendy toys.
Fiction book (2000) -
Best known for his 1991 novel Ten Second, he is the recipient of a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Fiction book (1993) -
Professor Marmalade, this year's recipient of the Golden Dolphin, the most annoying good creature on the planet.
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I would like to ask the award recipients to come forward at this time.
Synonyms
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2.7
A person who gets something someone sends, gives, or throws
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7.0
The person who receives something from an action, for example 'him' in 'She baked him a cake'
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4.1
A person who receives a letter or message
A person or address that receives mail
A person or thing that gets something
A person chosen to receive a message or email
Antonyms
Compounds
How Honored
Surface Forms
Morphology
recipient = receive (transparent) = recip + ent
The meaning 'person who receives' is directly inferable from the verb 'receive' plus the agentive suffix '-ent', despite minor form changes.
Etymology
The word recipient comes from the Latin verb recipere, made of re- 'back' and capere 'to take'. Think of receive — a recipient is a person or thing that 'gets' something, so the origin explains why it means 'one who receives'.