receive /ri-sēvˈ/

1. To take, get or catch, usu more or less passively
2. To have given or delivered to one
3. To experience
4. To take in or on
5. To admit
6. To accept
7. To meet or welcome on entrance
8. To harbour (ideas, etc)
9. To await in resistance
10. To bear the weight of
11. To experience, or learn of, and react towards
12. To accept as authority or as truth
13. To take into the body
14. To buy or deal in (stolen goods)
15. To be acted upon by, and transform, electrical signals

1. To be a recipient
2. To participate in communion (Christianity)
3. To receive signals
4. To hold a reception of visitors
5. To buy or deal in stolen goods

receivabilˈity or receivˈableness noun

receivˈable adjective

receivˈables plural noun

Amounts owed, assets

receivˈal noun (rare)

receivedˈ adjective

Generally accepted

receivˈer noun

1. A person who receives
2. An officer who receives taxes
3. A person appointed by a court to manage property under litigation, receive money, etc
4. An official receiver (see below)
5. A person who receives stolen goods (informal)
6. A vessel for receiving the products of distillation, or for containing gases (chem)
7. The glass vessel of an air-pump in which the vacuum is formed
8. An instrument by which electrical signals are transformed into audible or visual form, eg a telephone receiver
9. A receiving-set
10. A player on the offensive team eligible to catch forward passes (American football)
11. The catcher (baseball)
12. The part of a firearm that guides the round into the chamber

receivˈership noun

1. The state of being in the control of a receiver
2. The office or function of a receiver

receivˈing noun and adjective

Received (Standard) English noun

The English generally spoken by educated British people and considered the standard of the language

Received Pronunciation noun

The particular pronunciation of British English which is generally regarded as being least regionally limited, most socially acceptable, and is considered the standard (abbrev RP)

receiver general noun

An officer who receives revenues

receivˈing-house noun

1. A depot
2. A house where letters, etc are left for transmission

receiving line noun

A number of people standing in line formally to receive a VIP, guests, etc on arrival

receivˈing-office noun

A branch post-office for receipt of letters, etc

receiving order noun

Formerly, an order putting a receiver in temporary possession of a debtor's estate, pending bankruptcy proceedings

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