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start(1)(dictionary)
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recipient (iou) and START (oh)


recipient (iou)



recipient noun & adjective. M16.
[French recipient from Italian recipiente or Latin recipient- pres. ppl stem of recipere RECEIVE: see -ENT.]
A. noun.
A person who or thing which receives something. M16.
universal recipient: see UNIVERSAL adjective.
H. Kissinger Abrams had..been the recipient of..Presidential largesse. M. Forster He was a safe recipient of her affections.
Linguistics. The indirect object of a verb. M20.
b. adjective. That receives or is capable of receiving; receptive. E17.
recipience noun (rare) L19.
recipiency noun L18.

START (oh)



Strategic Arms Reduction Talks talks between the US and the former Soviet Union, which aimed to reach agreement about reducing the number of nuclear weapons that each country kept. Two START Treaties (=official agreements) were signed, START I (1991) and START II (1993), in which each country promised to destroy several types of nuclear weapons.
-see also SALT