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    re·ceive
    [rəˈsēv]
    verb
    receive (verb) · receives (third person present) · received (past tense) · received (past participle) · receiving (present participle)
    1. be given, presented with, or paid (something):
      "she received her prize from the manager" · "most businesses will receive a tax cut"
      • take delivery of (something sent or communicated).
      • consent to formally hear (an oath or confession):
        "he failed to find a magistrate to receive his oath"
      • buy or accept goods in the knowledge that they have been stolen:
        "a man convicted of receiving stolen property"
    2. suffer, experience, or be subject to (specified treatment):
      "the event received wide press coverage" · "she received only cuts and bruises" · "he received an eight-year prison sentence"
      • respond to (something) in a specified way:
        "her first poem was not well received"
      • meet and have to withstand:
        "the landward slopes receive the full force of the wind"
      • meet with (a specified response or reaction):
        "the rulings have received widespread acceptance"
    3. greet or welcome (a visitor) formally:
      "representatives of the club will be received by the Mayor"
      • be visited by:
        "she was not allowed to receive visitors"
      • admit as a member:
        "hundreds of converts were received into the Church"
    4. form (an idea or impression) as a result of perception or experience:
      "the impression she received was one of unhurried leisure"
    5. detect or pick up (broadcast signals):
      "Turkish television began to be received in Tashkent"
    6. serve as a receptacle for:
      "the basin that receives your blood"
      • provide space or accommodations for:
        "three lines are reserved for special vehicles, and the remaining lines receive the general rolling stock"
    7. (in tennis and similar games) be the player to whom the server serves (the ball).
    8. (in Christian services) eat or drink (the Eucharistic bread or wine):
      "he received Communion and left"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French receivre, based on Latin recipere, from re- ‘back’ + capere ‘take’.
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    verb
    1. be given, presented with, or paid (something):
      Opposite:
    2. suffer, experience, or be subject to (specified treatment):
    3. greet or welcome (a visitor) formally:
      say hello to
      show in
      usher in
      let in
     
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