receiving

Speech parts

1. receiving - Noun

2. receiving - Verb

Meaning

of Receive

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

have take received taking experience meet gain accept obtain arrival getting delivery acceptance hear reception

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Antonyms

postal safari beginning according despatch transmittal

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Phrases with the word

on the receiving end receiving benefit at the receiving end act of receiving be on the receiving end person receiving a pension

Examples

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. Albert Einstein

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Mary Wollstonecraft

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. Martin Van Buren

Life is both giving and receiving. Mohawk Proverb

Say nothing when you are giving -- only say something when you are receiving. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

receiver-general receiverless receivership receiving area receiving benefit receiving blanket