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Definition of Donor

Donor

One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.

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Donor Quotations

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
Mary Tyler Moore

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
Cliff Stearns

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.
Michael K. Simpson

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
Nathan Deal

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Donor Translations

donor in French is donateur
donor in Norwegian is giver, donor
donor in Spanish is donador, donante
donor in Swedish is givare

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