receiver

Plural

receivers

1. 1.A person who receives.

   • I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
   • 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.

2. 2.An item or apparatus that receives.

   • A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
   • There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
   • 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.

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• receive