The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year.receivedre‧ceived /rɪˈsiːvd/ adjective [only before noun] 
The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Sontag's articles challenged received notions about photography.
- Innovation, as so often in the market itself, is seen primarily within these received terms.
- Such a search will involve itself of course with received institutions; certainly it will go beyond them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He received a death sentence. British athletics received a tremendous fillip when Wells won the Gold. All contributions will be gratefully received.
(=the opinion most people have) The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year. He received a death sentence. British athletics received a tremendous fillip when Wells won the Gold. All contributions will be gratefully received. (=an idea that most people believe)· These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· He also received surgery at Broomfield Hospital, and his condition was later described as stable.· Hendley's lover, Terry McIntosh, 46, who admitted murder, also received life.· But she underwent counselling, and also received support from Sheila McLean, a Gerson therapist and former nurse.· Patients drank a bottle of magnesium citrate each night and also received tap water enemas until the return was clear.· Four other militia and Securitate members also received prison sentences.· If necessary, patients also received enemas the morning of the procedure.
NOUN· Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
· This is what received wisdom says.· I am, in this regard, simply challenging received wisdom as to which is the chicken and which the egg.· They became part of received wisdom, and to some extent, they remain so.· His entire performance is magnificently unsettling and is no sense the Liszt Sonata of received wisdom.· There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification.· Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny.· A consequence of breaking new ground is that received wisdom becomes a poor guide.· The received wisdom in pellet form, with some of the pellets poisoned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
- Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
- He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
- Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
- That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.
- This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
- Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
- We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.
WORD FAMILYnounreceiptreceiptsreceiverreceptionreceivershipreceivingreceptionistreceptoradjectivereceptive ≠ unreceptivereceivedverbreceive
formal accepted or considered to be correct by most peoplereceived opinion/wisdom etc (=the opinion most people have) The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year.