recipient

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

//ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt//
//ɹɪˈsɪp.i.ənt//

One who receives.

noun

1
One who receives.
the recipient of money or goods
My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
2
A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
3
The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).

adjective

1
receiving

Forms

plural: recipients

recession · The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.recharge · To charge an electric battery after its power has been…recipe · Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of…

recipient · One who receives.

recital · The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has…recite · To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously…reciting · A recitation.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.