Definition of Recipient

Recipient

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.

Receiving; receptive.

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Recipient Quotations

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Roland Barthes

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
Samuel P. Huntington

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.
Pauline Hanson

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
Asa Hutchinson

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height

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Recipient Translations

recipient in Danish is modtager
recipient in Dutch is ontvanger
recipient in French is recipient
recipient in Italian is destinatario
recipient in Spanish is destinatario
recipient in Swedish is mottagare

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