Library / English Dictionary

RECIPIENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Synonyms:

recipient; recipient role

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("recipient" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who receives something

Synonyms:

receiver; recipient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("recipient" is a kind of...):

acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recipient"):

warrantee (a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States)

transferee ((law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed)

sendee (the intended recipient of a message)

protege (a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career)

payee (a person to whom money is paid)

mandatary; mandatory (the recipient of a mandate)

host ((medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor)

honoree (a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments)

heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)

grantee (a recipient of a grant)

dependant; dependent (a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support))

consignee (the person to whom merchandise is delivered over)

conferee (a person on whom something is bestowed)

borrower (someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent)

beneficiary; donee (the recipient of funds or other benefits)

assignee ((law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred))

annuitant (the recipient of an annuity)

alienee; grantee (someone to whom the title of property is transferred)

addressee (one to whom something is addressed)

Derivation:

receive (get something; come into possession of)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The completed activity within the context of a given study that represents the communication of a message to a recipient.

(Performed Notification, NCI Thesaurus)

An activity that is intended to occur at some point in the course of a particular study that represents the communication of a message to a recipient.

(Planned Notification, NCI Thesaurus)

When Mercury is retrograde, the chances you will buy something that your recipient will return skyrockets.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The typing, separation, and storage of leukocytes for subsequent transfusion to recipients.

(Leukocyte Banking, NCI Thesaurus)

The device causes cellular or tissue responses that elicit an undesirable local or systemic effect in the recipient or beneficiary of that therapy (see ISO 10993).

(Device Biocompatibility Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

They are or are derived from plasmids, bacteriophages, or viruses and are used for transporting foreign genes into recipient cells.

(Cloning Vector, NCI Thesaurus)

But the last singularity explains the first, as I intimated once before: you, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An administrative activity defined at the global library level that represents the communication of a message to a recipient.

(Defined Notification, NCI Thesaurus)

The transfer of blood platelets from a donor to a recipient or reinfusion to the donor.

(Platelet Transfusion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Doctors must match donors to recipients to reduce the risk of transplant rejection.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)