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Noun: recipient  ri'si-pee-unt
  1. A person who receives something
    - receiver
     
  2. The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
    - recipient role

Derived forms: recipients

See also: receive

Type of: acquirer, participant role, semantic role

Encyclopedia: Recipient

Nearest

réchauffé
recheck
recherché
rechewed food
rechristen
recidivate
recidivism
recidivist
Recife
recipe
recipient
recipient role
reciprocal
reciprocal cross
reciprocal inhibition
reciprocal ohm
reciprocal pronoun
reciprocal-inhibition therapy
reciprocality
reciprocally
reciprocate