receiver
A person who receives.
Other meanings
An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
Synonyms
- receiving system
A kind of
- set
Kinds of receiver
- radio receiver
- satellite receiver
- television receiver
- auto-alarm
Related words
- multireceiver
- phosphoreceiver
- photoreceiver
- telereceiver
- receivership
- Ader receiver
- watch receiver
- receiverless
- cat's whisker receiver
- crystal radio receiver
- exhausted receiver
- first receiver
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "receverre".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “receiver” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.