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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recipient
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ One of the largest recipients is Rep.
passive
▪ Underlying the sequence is a view of the learner as a relatively passive recipient of instruction.
▪ Simultaneously, women were conceptualised as the passive recipients of scientific manipulation.
▪ No longer passive recipients of instruction, pupils are encouraged to be active collaborators in the learning process.
▪ However, the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure, but political actors and manipulators in their own right.
▪ The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
▪ These reformers, however, were not passive recipients of a message from on high.
▪ Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events.
social
▪ He wants the retirement age raised to 70 and cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients reduced.
▪ For example: Do Social Security recipients want government playing the market?
temporary
▪ The following Tuesday morning the embryos are recovered from the temporary recipients.
▪ A third group act as temporary recipients, incubating the newly reconstructed embryos within their oviducts until they reach the blastocyst stage.
■ NOUN
medicare
▪ Can you imagine requiring that all Medicaid and Medicare recipients go to public hospitals?
▪ The result is that the entire cost will be paid out of general Treasury funds, rather than by Medicare recipients.
security
▪ He wants the retirement age raised to 70 and cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients reduced.
▪ For example: Do Social Security recipients want government playing the market?
welfare
▪ Their plan would also soften the requirement that welfare recipients work.
▪ Six former welfare recipients will be placed at the White House in mostly clerical positions, officials said.
▪ Conservative propagandists have sold taxpayers on the notion that welfare recipients are ingrates dependent on wasteful programs perpetuating idleness.
▪ And a new $ 100 million program would help welfare recipients get to jobs and training.&038;.
▪ As with the stereotyping and stigmatizing of welfare recipients, views about teenage childbearing are frequently extraordinarily simplistic.
▪ Anyway, I see where 35, 000 welfare recipients have been put into workfare jobs in New York City.
▪ He said states should be allowed to drug-test welfare recipients and have the option to refuse benefits to drug abusers.
▪ If a welfare recipient saves enough to buy a car so she can look for work, her grant is reduced.
■ VERB
become
▪ Vicars bribed with halfpennies and were known to pressure parents about what was expected before some one became an appropriate recipient of charity.
▪ She touches a piece of heaven and becomes the recipient of power from an unknown source.
▪ At the very least individuals will become consumers rather than recipients of care.
▪ Parents become the recipients of the Social Security taxes paid by their own children.
▪ But my stage tended to turn into a revolving stage and I became the recipient of endless encores.
give
▪ It's something I can do on long, boring evenings and gives the recipients a lot of pleasure.
▪ The compromise gives new recipients 18 months, with the county option of extending the period to two years.
▪ So aid policies changed in favour of giving the recipient country much greater responsibility.
▪ If we give to personally known recipients, we experience gratification while they experience obligation.
help
▪ And a new $ 100 million program would help welfare recipients get to jobs and training.&038;.
▪ One was the poor, he said, repeating his call for people to help former welfare recipients move into work.
▪ Has it helped or harmed recipients?
hire
▪ More than $ 300 million would be set aside for new tax credits for businesses who hire welfare recipients.
▪ Clinton is trying to encourage employers to hire welfare recipients through tax breaks and subsidies.
▪ So far, Monsanto has hired five welfare recipients, and its contractors and suppliers have found jobs for roughly 20 more.
▪ For business, there were offers of tax breaks for hiring welfare recipients.
require
▪ It uses digital signatures and requires recipients to download free software to read the electronic postmark.
▪ The federal Family Support Act of 1988 required many welfare recipients to participate in education, training, or work.
▪ Social Security is required to review each recipient whose improvement is considered possible.
▪ The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.
▪ That plan also would require all welfare recipients with children 12 weeks old or older to perform some kind of work.
work
▪ If no job after two years of training, recipient must work in community service or public service job.
▪ Their plan would also soften the requirement that welfare recipients work.
▪ The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.
▪ The fiscal rub arises because of new mandates that the hours a welfare recipient works gradually increase to 30 per week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ welfare recipients
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the institute rarely bothered to check whether the recipients followed through.
▪ Education works only if the recipients really want it.
▪ Support for the latter appears to be ebbing, with the Green alliance the likely recipient of much of the protest vote.
▪ The federal Family Support Act of 1988 required many welfare recipients to participate in education, training, or work.
▪ The success of such programmes depends heavily on how much part their recipients have in their design and execution.
▪ Three minutes later, the computer prints out a list of 60 names of suitable recipients, together with their relevant data.
▪ Tissues and organs were transplanted into 50 recipients.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recipient

Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\, a. Receiving; receptive.

Recipient

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recipient

1550s, from Middle French récipient (16c.) and directly from Latin recipientem (nominative recipiens), present participle of recipere (see receive). As an adjective from 1610s. Related: Recipience; recipiency.

Wiktionary
recipient

n. 1 One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods. 2 (context medicine English) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues. 3 (context chemistry English) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

WordNet
recipient

  1. n. 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]

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Usage examples of "recipient".

Katalin-Cricket-Grillon was the recipient of almost as many bouquets and candy boxes and messages as was the star artiste, Clover Lee.

All government business relating to Bootstrap and the Blue children was now conducted by handwritten note: one copy only, to be destroyed by the recipient after use.

This delayed complication occurred in only two of the first twenty recipients of intrafamilial homografts who were treated with ALG.

Rogers followed him on his way to the club, and just when Minks was reflecting with pride of the well-turned phrases he had dictated to his wife for her letter of thanks, it passed across the mind of its recipient that he had forgotten to read it altogether.

And therefore it has the effect of a sacrament in the recipient, and the effect of a sacrifice in the offerer, or in them for whom it is offered.

For the sacrament is not perfected by the righteousness of the minister or of the recipient of Baptism, but by the power of God.

In those sacraments which are perfected in the use of the matter, the minister has to perform some bodily action on the recipient of the sacrament, e.

The recipient then wrote a check to Max Strother Commodities in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, to open a trading account.

By implanting a unique tetrode transistor into the brain stem, then using a modified broadcast transmitter to emit the proper signal, I can control the behavior of the recipients.

The marrow of the donor is liquefied and mixed with the blood of the bloodroot, and that mix is put into the body of the recipient, and finds its own way into the bone.

Flak, with the German cities merely playing the role of the unfortunate recipients of the bombs dropped by those bombers which had evaded the German defence.

The impulse, it was quite obvious, was prompted less by conventionality than by a knightliness of heart, and Celestina, who had never before been the recipient of such courtesies, found herself inexpressibly touched by the trifling attentions.

American cryptanalytic effort pumped magic to its eager recipients smoothly, speedily, and lavishly.

My poor Lady Cytherea has been the recipient of all my sad recollections.

Bruce Duncan is being tracked by the organization because he was the recipient of czarist wealth.