recipient

Speech parts

1. recipient - Noun

2. recipient - Adjective

Meaning

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.

Receiving; receptive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

receiver target customer beneficiary addressee grantee consignee donee transferee awardee recipient role collegian baccalaureate assignee diplomate
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Antonyms

shylock samaritan innkeeper enemy criminal agent
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Hypernyms

acquirer participant role semantic role

Hyponyms

assignee host dependent heir mandatory beneficiary

Phrases with the word

money recipient medal recipient recipient of a medal finance recipient loan recipient degree recipient

Examples

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. William Makepeace Thackeray

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Milan Kundera

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. Bolesław Prus

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. Pauline Hanson

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John D. Rockefeller

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. Daniel J. Siegel

Close letter words and terms

recipiangle recipience recipiency recipient of a medal recipient role recipientship