RECIPIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recipient mean? 

• RECIPIENT (noun)
  The noun RECIPIENT has 2 senses:

1. a person who receives something

2. the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

  Familiarity information: RECIPIENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECIPIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who receives something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

receiver; recipient

Hypernyms ("recipient" is a kind of...):

acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recipient"):

grantee (a recipient of a grant)

warrantee (a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States)

transferee ((law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed)

sendee (the intended recipient of a message)

protege (a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career)

payee (a person to whom money is paid)

mandatary; mandatory (the recipient of a mandate)

host ((medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor)

honoree (a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments)

heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)

addressee (one to whom something is addressed)

dependant; dependent (a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support))

consignee (the person to whom merchandise is delivered over)

conferee (a person on whom something is bestowed)

borrower (someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent)

beneficiary; donee (the recipient of funds or other benefits)

assignee ((law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred))

annuitant (the recipient of an annuity)

alienee; grantee (someone to whom the title of property is transferred)

Derivation:

receive (get something; come into possession of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

recipient; recipient role

Hypernyms ("recipient" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)

 Context examples 

Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient.

(Graft, NCI Thesaurus)

Donor type also affected transplant success, with the best outcomes resulting from sibling donors whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) — proteins that help regulate immune responses — matched those of the recipient.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

Antibiotics are essential to prevent bacterial infections in stem cell recipients.

(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)

Stem cell recipients typically need to take immunosuppressants for months to a few years.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports for description of the recipient of a dose.

(Dose Denominator Qualifier ICSR Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A graft transferred from a donor of one species to a recipient of the same species but different genetic makeup.

(Allograft, NCI Thesaurus)

Testing the device to determine if it elicits an undesirable local or systemic biological effect in the cells or tissues of the recipient of that device.

(Device Biocompatibility Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The intended recipient of a heart transplant.

(Candidate to Receive Cardiac Transplant, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

An immune response that involves a reaction by immune cells that are present in transplanted tissue, such as bone marrow or peripheral blood, to a recipient's tumor cells.

(Graft-Versus-Tumor Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

The transfer of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor.

(Organ Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)