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{
"term": "recipient",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person who receives something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "recipients of awards"
},
{
"text": "I was the grateful recipient of a helping hand from a total stranger."
},
{
"text": "He was a worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize."
},
{
"text": "He was the recipient of a distinguished service award."
},
{
"text": "Our 1 000th member will be the lucky recipient of a mystery gift."
},
{
"text": "She was not the intended recipient of the reward."
},
{
"text": "We are passive recipients of information from the world around us."
},
{
"text": "matching a donor kidney with the most suitable recipient"
},
{
"text": "the ultimate recipient of the money"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["largest", "main", "major"],
"preposition": ["recipient of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈsɪpiənt/",
"audio": "re/recipient/recipient__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈsɪpiənt/",
"audio": "re/recipient/recipient__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Latin recipient- ‘receiving’, from the verb recipere."
}