sender
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈsɛndər/
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remitente
- The receiver must be able to attach meaning to what the sender intends in communicating messages.
- sender and receiver
- sender of the message
- sender of the information
We had a big hit with return to sender address unknown.
- We had a big hit with return to sender address unknown.
- And what he's doing is because I've seen letters, he's wrote people and they've just returned to sender and pretended that they haven't received it.
- So we go and we check through the Converse website, our info and it's like package sent back to sender.
Examples
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One look at its sender and Olivia felt a wave of pleasure.
Fiction book (2001) -
The key concepts are message, sender, receiver, and medium.
Academic text (2008) -
My letters come back, "Return to Sender."
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- Did you order this package or do you know the sender?
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We can say, OK, only the sender and receiver know the amounts.
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The tech team is working on your phone to trace the sender.
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Yet I have no way of checking it or naming the sender, who claims to be a student of mine.
Fiction book (2000) -
In this case, the motives of the sender are quite different.
Academic text (1994) -
The good listener must try to determine the real message of the sender belonging to the other culture.
Academic text (1997) -
The sender of the package included a note that explained its contents.
Synonyms
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3.3
A person or company that sends goods to other places
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2.8
A person who sends letters or packages by post
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4.4
A person who sends information to someone else
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7.7
A person or company who sends goods to another
A person who sends mail or packages
A person who sends a letter or message
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sender comes from the verb send plus the ending -er, which means 'one who does something', just like in writer. So a sender is simply 'one who sends' a letter, message, or parcel.