receiver
/ɹəˈsi.vɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters."
- "This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver."
- "It took the name Midland & South Western Junction in 1884 and reached Cheltenham, with its M.R. connection, in 1891; but poverty continued - a receiver had been appointed in 1884."
- "A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver."
- "The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static."
- "There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/
- British English: /ɹɪˈsiː.və/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
transmitter-receiver
transceiver
Synonyms
insolvency administrator
insolvency practitioner
liquidator
administrator
court administrator
trustee in bankruptcy
receiving system
telephone receiver