receiver

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

1. A person who receives.
2. A person who receives.

   “I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.”

3. A person who receives.
4. A person who receives.

   “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.”

5. A person who receives.
6. A person who receives.
7. An item or apparatus that receives.
8. An item or apparatus that receives.
9. An item or apparatus that receives.

   “A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.”

10. An item or apparatus that receives.
11. An item or apparatus that receives.
12. An item or apparatus that receives.

    “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.”

13. An item or apparatus that receives.

    “There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.”

14. An item or apparatus that receives.