recipient
[ri-sip-ee-uh nt]
Origin of recipient
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Contemporary Examples
That Snapchat deceptively told its users that the sender would be notified if a recipient took a screenshot of a snap.
‘The Snappening’ Is Real: 90,000 Private Photos and 9,000 Hacked Snapchat Videos Leak OnlineMarlow Stern
October 13, 2014
According to the recipient of his greeting, Patreese Johnson, he said, “I want some of that” and motioned to her crotch.
This is especially so given that Sotomayor has been frank about her past as a recipient of affirmative action.
“Snowden should storm the Kremlin,” tweeted Glenn Greenwald, the recipient of many a Snowden leak.
Marky Mark (you know, from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch), was the recipient of the Generation Award.
Historical Examples
He leaned from the saddle to bring his recipient hand to a convenient distance.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
I was doomed to be the recipient of confidences, and to be confronted with unanswerable questions.
Lord JimJoseph Conrad
He knew you then as something more than the recipient of his earnings.
St. Patrick's EveCharles James Lever
Where it is assumed that the recipient will not want to read the letter.
How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters)Mary Owens Crowther
He was, indeed, the recipient of other honours not often awarded for scientific distinction.
Great AstronomersR. S. Ball
recipient
- a person who or thing that receives
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- a less common word for receptive
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Word Origin
C16: via French from Latin recipiēns, from recipere to receive
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Word Origin and History for recipient
n.
1550s, from Middle French récipient (16c.) and directly from Latin recipientem (nominative recipiens), present participle of recipere (see receive). As an adjective from 1610s. Related: Recipience; recipiency.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
recipient
(rĭ-sĭp′ē-ənt)- Functioning as a receiver; receptive.
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- One who receives blood, tissue, or an organ from a donor.
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