receiver

From Middle English recevere, receyvere, equivalent to receive +‎ -er. Compare Anglo-Norman receivour, recevor, rescaivour.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsivɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsiːvə/

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• Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)

receiver (plural receivers)

1. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.

   Synonym: recipient (more formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal)

   • Charles Dickens, The Begging-Letter Writer

     I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

   1. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
   2. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.

      Synonyms: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy

   3. A person who accepts stolen goods.
   4. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.

      Antonym: transmitter

      • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

        The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

      1. A telephone handset.
      2. A smartphone earpiece.
   5. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
   6. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
   7. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
      1. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
      2. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
      3. A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
   8. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.

• (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver

• receivership