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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\, adjective Receiving; receptive.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"[i^]*ent), noun [L. recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive: cf. F. r['e]cipient. See {Receive}.] A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
recipient
noun
1: a person who gets something [syn: {receiver}]
2: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: {recipient role}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "recipient": accepter, acquirer, addressee, admissible, admissive, admissory, audience, auditor, beholder, beneficiary, consignee, getter, hearer, heir, heiress, holder, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, legatee, listener, looker, obtainer, open, payee, procurer, receivable, receiver, receiving, receptible, receptive, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer, welcoming
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
recipient One who receives; receiver. E.g. "No recipient of the {e-mail} message will know about the other {addressees} who were listed in the {BCC} header." (2000-03-22)
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