donordo‧nor /ˈdəʊnə $ ˈdoʊnər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
We urgently need more assistance from donor countries (=countries that give money, food etc to help in poor countries or disaster areas). An anonymous donor (=whose name is unknown) has given £500 towards the restoration fund.2someone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else: Some patients die before a suitable donor is found.blood/organ/kidney etc donor the shortage of blood donorsCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + donora suitable donor· After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.a blood donor· Are you willing to register as a blood donor?an organ donor· There are not nearly enough organ donors.a heart/liver/kidney etc donor· There is a shortage of kidney donors.a sperm/egg donor (=a man who gives sperm or a woman who gives eggs to help someone else have a baby)· Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.donor + NOUNa donor organ· She had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.a donor heart/liver/kidney etc· The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.donor blood· Donor blood had to be used during the operation.a donor card (=that you carry to give permission for your organs to be used if you die)· Do you carry a donor card?
WORD ORIGINdonor
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French doneur, from Latin donare ‘to give’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Finding a liver donor may be difficult.
- Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.
- Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.
- The museum received $10,000 from an anonymous donor.
- In return, major donors were granted various privileges, depending on how much they had given.
- In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.
- Moreover, dozens of donors came from outside New York state.
- Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
- That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.
Longman Language Activatorto give money, food etc in order to help people
to give money to an organization that will use it to help people who are poor, sick, in trouble etc: · The British give animal welfare organizations over £200 million per year.· Please give generously, these children need your help.· We would be grateful for any donation that you are prepared to give.give something to somebody: · Local people have given over $100,000 to our Help a Child appeal.give to: · About a quarter of Britons regularly give to charity.
to give money, or something useful or valuable, in order to help people - use this especially about things that are given by companies or organizations: · The books were donated by a local publishing company.donate something to something: · The concert organizers say they will donate all profits to charity.
to give an amount of money to an organization that will use it to help people: · We're collecting money to build a hostel for homeless people - would you like to make a donation?make a donation to: · The company made several large donations to charities.
if something such as a sum of money goes to someone, especially to a group of people who are poor, hungry, sick etc, it is given to them: · All the money raised will go to local charities.
an organization that collects money or goods from people who give them, and uses them to help people who need help: · Elton John has campaigned for a number of AIDS charities.give/donate something to charity: · The corporation has donated nearly $70 million to children's charities over the past 17 years.· Clear out all the clothes you never wear, and give them to charity.go to charity: · All profits from the show will go to charity.do something for charity: · They aim to walk 30 miles for charity.a charity ball/lunch/concert etc (=an event organized to make money for charity): · Porter spent his retirement years organizing charity golf tournaments throughout the United States.
a person, organization, or country that gives something, especially money, to another organization or country so that they can use it to help other people: · Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.· Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.
someone who gives blood or a part of their body so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else: · The patient needs a liver transplant, and the search has begun for a suitable donor.· Unless more blood donors come forward, it may be necessary to cancel some operations.
someone who gives something, especially a large amount of money, to an organization or institution such as a school, hospital or library: · Getty had been the museum's chief benefactor.· The painting was bought by an anonymous benefactor, and donated to the Museum of Modern Art.
a rich person who gives a lot of money to help poorer people: · In Victorian times, factory owners were often also philanthropists.· the millionaire philanthropist, Graham Paulo
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + donor the anonymous donor of a large sum of money
1a person, group etc that gives something, especially money, to help an organization or country: · After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.
· Are you willing to register as a blood donor?
· There are not nearly enough organ donors.
· There is a shortage of kidney donors.
(=a man who gives sperm or a woman who gives eggs to help someone else have a baby)· Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.
donor + NOUN· She had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.
· The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
· Donor blood had to be used during the operation.
(=that you carry to give permission for your organs to be used if you die)· Do you carry a donor card?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the anonymous donor of a large sum of money (=one that shows you want your organs to be given to someone when you die)· We want to encourage more people to carry a donor card.
(=an organ from one person's body that is put or can be put into another person's body)· There is a chronic shortage of donor organs.
(=someone who gives an organ for an organ transplant)· Not all patients who die are suitable as organ donors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.· An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.· The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor.· The Free Presbyterians' fines were paid by an anonymous donor.· Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows' front verandah.· It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.· The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
· Others take earmarked money but go beyond the legal requirements and identify big donors.· Courting big-money donors takes time, sometimes years from the first contact to the delivered check.· In addition to big party donors, guests also included community leaders, elected officials and business executives.· Another coffee in 1996 saw big donors from Texas gathered at the White House.
· She saw the names of prominent corporate donors mentioned liberally throughout the library and recoiled.· Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.· With potential large corporate and individual donors, emphasize specific project sponsorship more than general operating fund support.
· Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., is concentrating on Democratic donors and the Clinton administration.· Few heavy Democratic donors attended as many coffees as Azima, who is a registered Republican.· Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.
· The Justice Department has launched a broader inquiry into the alleged solicitation of foreign donors by the Democrats, particularly Huang.
· You may like to know that the cost of these sachets have been met by a generous donor.· There is good reason to believe that this is also the wish of those who are the generous donors.· Unfortunately, Ed Durbeck is not really in the position of a generous donor.
· With potential large corporate and individual donors, emphasize specific project sponsorship more than general operating fund support.· In Stockport, the School had already benefited from the generosity of many individual local donors.
· These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors.· The debt crisis has made commercial banks and international donors wary of making certain types of investments.· Agencies for Development Assistance provides profiles of international donor agencies as well as guidelines on how to submit support proposals to them.· Peace talks have cost $ 12 million to international donors.
· Before this, the regime was not regarded with favour by many of the major donor agencies in the West.· Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.· These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors.· The study found that Enron was a major donor to Sen.· In return, major donors were granted various privileges, depending on how much they had given.
· These bacteria use molecular hydrogen as well as other electron donors, for the dissimilatory reduction of sulphate to sulphide.· The confidence displayed by the World Bank men and other donors in the early 1970s has clearly not fulfilled its promise.· We are considering what more we can do and it is up to some other donors to do likewise.
· In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries.· Upon reflection, Romer said, he considers it acceptable to give potential donors the names of such tax-exempt organizations.· But the main potential donor, the United States, has not yet confirmed that it will take part.· Lamm also expects to spend some of his short stay in Silicon Valley chatting with potential donors.· We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.· Alan agrees to put the suit on hold and to stay away from the media while Dave pursues the potential donor.· The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors.· It has been suggested that supply would be adequate if all potential donors became actual donors.
· Curators, art dealers, conservators, art donors and prospective donors seek his attention.
· It's unlikely she'd be suitable as a donor, she could probably be only a half-match at best.· Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.· She vowed if it was humanly possible, no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor.· Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found.· One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found.· In fact, 80% of people who die under the age of 60 are suitable donors.
· The programme is not binding on any of the signatories but is likely to influence the lending and spending of Western donors.· Similar plans to placate Western donors are often behind the establishment of rights commissions, it said.· Concern was expressed that Western donors might link aid to political reform.· The suspension cast doubt on the prospect of larger-scale aid disbursements by Western donor countries.
NOUN· The attention of all the principal aid donors is concentrated there.· These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors.
· Who can become a blood donor?· Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.· The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.· That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.· Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.· It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.· Our contracts specify that private patients, many of whom are themselves blood donors, are not charged for the blood itself.
· Six-year-old Stewart Davies carried a donor card everywhere with him, heartbroken dad Brian revealed.· Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans.· Only two weeks before, she told her mum she wanted a donor card in case anything happened to her.· I therefore launched the donor card again last week.· Remember, by filling in a donor card you could help save some one's life.· How to join the register A donor card is just as essential now as it always has been.· Organ donor cards are available from most hospitals, general practice surgeries, dispensing pharmacists, and social security offices. 9.
· First the donor cells had to be cultured and genetically transformed, which could take weeks or months.
· On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal.· The kit system worked well until 1990, when the donor country suddenly and unexpectedly decided to reduce funding.· The suspension cast doubt on the prospect of larger-scale aid disbursements by Western donor countries.
· Design - Prospective cohort study of all women who had entered a donor insemination programme.· Leaflets on HIV/AIDS, donor insemination and other topics are available.· Again, donor insemination should be considered.· We may also have been exposed to the virus in the past through blood transfusion or donor inseminations.
· They are waiting for a kidney donor and time is running out fast.· Patterson wrote his daughter in November offering to be her kidney donor.· However, he wrote to the girl in November offering to be her kidney donor.
· An international search for a bone marrow donor led to Janet Pope, a doctor's receptionist from Princes Risborough.· The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors.
· Many more organ donors, however, are available than are being assessed through existing organ procurement efforts.· In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.· We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.· The second good reason was that he was the perfect organ donor.· The patient's relatives were keen for him to be an organ donor.· The specimens from the organ donors were immediately placed in ice cold isotonic saline.· A shortage of organ donors continues to be the main limiting factor in most types of transplantation.
VERB· Who can become a blood donor?· To become a donor, simply click through and follow the instructions on how to print out the card.· We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.· It has been suggested that supply would be adequate if all potential donors became actual donors.
· Six-year-old Stewart Davies carried a donor card everywhere with him, heartbroken dad Brian revealed.· Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans.· Make sure they know and understand your wishes. Carry a donor card.
· Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.· Who knows whether we could find a compatible donor in a hundred years?· Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.
· An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.· Distances between hydrogen-bonding acceptor and donor atoms are given in A. Five carboxyl groups in this cluster are buried inside the protein.· One obvious way for developing nations to get the money is for outside donors to give it to them.
· Many officials now spend most of their working hours entertaining visiting delegations, meeting donors, and preparing project documents.· The president has not met with the donor since the Rose Bowl.· He says you're not allowed to meet your donor until at least 1 year after the operation.· In fact, he asks everyone at the meeting to keep the donor idea under wraps.· You may like to know that the cost of these sachets have been met by a generous donor.
We urgently need more assistance from donor countries (=countries that give money, food etc to help in poor countries or disaster areas). An anonymous donor (=whose name is unknown) has given £500 towards the restoration fund.2someone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else: Some patients die before a suitable donor is found.blood/organ/kidney etc donor the shortage of blood donorsCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + donora suitable donor· After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.a blood donor· Are you willing to register as a blood donor?an organ donor· There are not nearly enough organ donors.a heart/liver/kidney etc donor· There is a shortage of kidney donors.a sperm/egg donor (=a man who gives sperm or a woman who gives eggs to help someone else have a baby)· Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.donor + NOUNa donor organ· She had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.a donor heart/liver/kidney etc· The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.donor blood· Donor blood had to be used during the operation.a donor card (=that you carry to give permission for your organs to be used if you die)· Do you carry a donor card?