Associations to the word «Recipient»

Wiktionary

RECIPIENT, noun. One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
RECIPIENT, noun. (medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
RECIPIENT, noun. (chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

Dictionary definition

RECIPIENT, noun. A person who receives something.
RECIPIENT, noun. The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope