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receiver (iou)



receiver noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman receivo(u)r = Old French recevere, -our; later from RECEIVE + -ER1.]
A person who receives something; spec. (a) Amer. Football an attacking player eligible to catch a pass; a defender designated to receive a kick-off; (b) Baseball a catcher; (c) (Tennis etc.) the player to whom the server serves the ball. ME.
a. Hist. An official appointed to receive money due; a treasurer. ME.
b. A person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt or insane person, or property under litigation. Also official receiver. L18.
c. The official of the Metropolitan Police Force responsible for police property, buildings, and finance. E19.
A person who receives stolen goods. Formerly also, a person who harboured offenders. ME.
A vessel for holding something; a receptacle. LME.
b. spec. in Chemistry. A vessel, usu. of glass, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. Also, a vessel for receiving and containing gases or for containing a vacuum. L16.
c. The part of a firearm housing the action and to which the barrel and other components are attached. L19.
Medicine. A piece of flannel in which a newborn baby is placed. Now rare. L17.
a. A device or instrument which receives or reacts to an electric current, esp. a signal. Now freq. spec., that part of a telephone apparatus contained in the earpiece, in which electric currents transmitted along the wire are converted to sounds; also freq. loosely, a complete telephone handset, or occas., a whole telephone unit. L19.
b. An apparatus for receiving (signals transmitted as) electromagnetic waves; esp. a radio or television set; spec. in Radio, a combined tuner and amplifier (without a loudspeaker). L19.
c. A detector for sound or other compressional waves. E20.
Phrases & comb.: official receiver: see sense 2b above. receiver-general (now Hist. & N. Amer.) a chief receiver, esp. of public revenues. receiver of wreck a port official to whom all objects recovered from the sea or from sunken ships must be delivered for adjudication of ownership. wide receiver: see WIDE adjective.