Recipient

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"[i^]*ent), n. [L.
     recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive:
     cf. F. r['e]cipient. See {Receive}.]
     A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom,
     or that to which, anything is given or communicated;
     specifically, the receiver of a still.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\, a.
     Receiving; receptive.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recipient
       n 1: a person who gets something [syn: {receiver}]
       2: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively
          involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the
          clause [syn: {recipient role}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "recipient":
     accepter, acquirer, addressee, admissible, admissive, admissory,
     audience, auditor, beholder, beneficiary, consignee, getter,
     hearer, heir, heiress, holder, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive,
     intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, legatee,
     listener, looker, obtainer, open, payee, procurer, receivable,
     receiver, receiving, receptible, receptive, spectator, taker,
     trustee, viewer, welcoming
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  recipient
       
           One who receives; receiver.  E.g. "No
          recipient of the {e-mail} message will know about the other
          {addressees} who were listed in the {BCC} header."
       
          (2000-03-22)