recipient
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recipient/rɪˈsɪpiənt/
▶noun a receiver of something.
– derivatives
recipiency noun.
recipiency noun.
– origin C16: from L. recipient-, recipere ‘receive’.
'recipient' also found in these Oxford entries:
allograft
- chain letter
- crossmatch
- dative
- dead letter box
- deed of covenant
- deliver
- direct object
- faithfully
- have
- hawala
- host
- overthrow
- pauper
- philately
- poisoned chalice
- recorded delivery
- reverse
- sievert
- universal recipient
- waste
- white elephant
- xenograft
