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Receiver   /rəsˈivər/  /rɪsˈivər/  /risˈivər/   Listen
Receiver

noun
1.
Set that receives radio or tv signals.  Synonym: receiving system.
2.
(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties.  Synonym: liquidator.
3.
Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds.  Synonym: telephone receiver.
4.
A person who receives something.  Synonym: recipient.
5.
The tennis player who receives the serve.
6.
A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass.  Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver.



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"Receiver" Quotes from Famous Books



... principal or accessory. If, when the day of reckoning came, she could make it appear that she did not know the money had been stolen, she would escape the penalty and the odium of being a thief, or a receiver ...
— Hope and Have - or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People • Oliver Optic
... sad; and a general "Hark-from-the-tombs-a-doleful-sound" style of conversation seemed to be the fashion: a state of things which caused one coming from a merry, social New England town, to feel as if she had got into an exhausted receiver; and the instinct of self-preservation, to say nothing of a philanthropic desire to serve the race, caused a speedy change ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... up the receiver and rang again. This time she called the bank, asking for the president. "Is this Mr. Furlow?" she said. "This is Grace Harlowe. I am at the office of Mr. Henry Hammond, who is about to write my father a check for five hundred dollars, which he wishes to cash before the bank closes. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... the King and Queen on May 7, 1493, appointed Gomez Tello to go with Columbus on the second voyage to act as receiver of the royal dues, Thacher argues strongly, on the ground that this recommendation presumably antedates the appointment of a treasurer, that this letter of Columbus's was written earlier than May ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... of the hammock where he had been swinging up and down on the cool front porch of his little house in Bunnytown, corner of Lettuce avenue and Carrot street, and hopped into the library and took down the receiver and said "Helloa! This ...
— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory


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