Definitions for receiver

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receiver re·ceiv·er

Spelling: [ri-see-ver]

IPA: /rɪˈsi vər/

Receiver is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in receiver (ceeeirrv).

Definitions for receiver

noun

1. a person or thing that receives.
2. a device or apparatus that receives electrical signals, waves, or the like, and renders them perceptible to the senses, as the part of a telephone held to the ear, a radio receiving set, or a television receiving set.
3. Law. a person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of a bankrupt business or person or to care for property in litigation.
4. Commerce. a person appointed to receive money due.
5. a person who knowingly receives stolen goods for an illegal purpose; a dealer in stolen merchandise.
6. a device or apparatus for receiving or holding something; receptacle; container.
7. (in a firearm) the basic metal unit housing the action and to which the barrel and other components are attached.
8. Chemistry. a vessel for collecting and containing a distillate.
9. Football. a player on the offensive team who catches, is eligible to catch, or is noted for the ability to catch a forward pass:
10. Baseball. the catcher.

Origin of receiver

1300-50; 1875-80 for def 2; receive + -er¹; replacing Middle English recevour Anglo-French receivour, recevour (Old French receve

Examples for receiver

What would I not have given to have been the receiver of such a letter?

“You are destroying the university,” he shouted into the receiver.

After everything is in order and the call has been placed, Hitch picks up the receiver and says “How do you do?”

The sender and receiver pay the driver a few hryvnia—the Ukrainian currency—on either end.

He went to the desk where the telephone was, and took up the receiver.

The impact of sounds on his ear from the receiver set him to attention.

The receiver is the only part of the gun that can be legally controlled and must be serialized if 100 percent complete.

The clumsy framework of the receiver was reduced to a neat and portable size.

Brooks: [Snatching up the receiver as the phone rings] This is Mel Brooks.

She stood there looking at the receiver as her hands came together.