receiver

CEFRB1

/ɹəˈsi.vɚ/

noun

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01
noun
A person or device that receives something.
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noun
Extra detail
A person who receives.

Examples

He picked up the telephone receiver to answer the incoming call.
I forgot to lift the receiver before dialing the number.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
A person who accepts stolen goods.

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In context

The worried housewife heard the telephone ring and quickly picked up the receiver.
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.
I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

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In the game, the player who caught the touchdown pass was the blank of the quarterback's throw.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
1850, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words
This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
1960 March 26, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Preston—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 201
It took the name Midland & South Western Junction in 1884 and reached Cheltenham, with its M.R. connection, in 1891; but poverty continued - a receiver had been appointed in 1884.
1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 585
There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 60
A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 839

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

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In the game, the player who caught the touchdown pass was the blank— of the quarterback's throw.

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Origin

noun

In the game, the player who caught the touchdown pass was the blank of the quarterback's throw.