Recipient
/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who receives.
"the recipient of money or goods"
- 2 the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause wordnet
- 3 A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
- 4 a person who receives something wordnet
- 5 The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
Adjective
- 1 receiving not-comparable
Example
More examples"The largest recipient of Japan's ODA that year was China."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).