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Meaning receive meaning

What does receive mean?
Definitions in simple English

receive Verb

— When you receive something, you get something that was sent or given to you. I receive letters in the mail every day. It is better to give than to receive.

receive

— verb get something; come into possession of receive payment receive a gift receive letters from the front — verb (= get, find) receive a specified treatment (abstract) These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation His movie received a good review I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions — verb (= pick up) register (perceptual input) pick up a signal — verb (= experience, have, get) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) get an idea experience vertigo get nauseous receive injuries have a feeling — verb express willingness to have in one's home or environs The community warmly received the refugees — verb accept as true or valid He received Christ — verb convert into sounds or pictures receive the incoming radio signals — verb (= welcome) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival — verb (= meet) experience as a reaction My proposal met with much opposition — verb regard favorably or with disapproval Her new collection of poems was not well received — verb partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament — verb have or give a reception The lady is receiving Sunday morning — verb (= get) receive as a retribution or punishment He got 5 years in prison

Synonyms receive synonyms

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receive English » English

accept get take welcome obtain have entertain admit take in meet acquire greet gain treat catch accredit find pick up experience bear invite given approve acknowledge take hold of sustain suffer reception inherit host hold grab earn collect attain assume allow agree utilize undertake take up take on shelter seize see rely on recognize own occupy lean on

Topics receive topics

What do people use receive to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion

Believe
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group Visit

Welcome, receive
Social behavior Religion Practice religion

Salvation
Physical actions Have, be with

Receive
Person Life Die

Inherit
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize

Conjugation receive conjugation

How do you conjugate receive?

receive · verb

Examples receive examples

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Simple sentences

Did you receive the letter?
When we are away from home, nothing gives us more pleasure than to receive a parcel from home.
I stayed home last night to be able to receive your call.
The law enables us to receive an annuity.
It'll be two weeks before you receive the article.
If you touch that wire, you will receive a shock.
Please send me a reply as soon as you receive this mail.
The only thing in the world which one can never receive or give too much is love.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
When and where did you receive the gift?
When did you receive the telegram?
If there is already an account, there is a system by which you are able to send and receive email.
Not a letter did I receive from her.
Now that we are established in our new house we shall be glad to receive visitors.
You need to open an account at a bank to receive the payment.

Movie subtitles

You can only receive not send.
Receive the condolers' visits too.
Criminal, Kim Eun Oh, come out now and receive this order.
Harry, you'll receive that syringe and you'll send it for FBC, U and E's, GS, TEG, EtOH, beta-HCG and drug screen.
Did you, on the 10th of September 1857, receive a communication from Isaac C, Haight, or any other person of Cedar City, concerning a company of emigrants called the Arkansas company?
A sinner wishing to receive absolution wants to meet you tomorrow at 9 AM in a small chapel on the route to Le Mans.
Hence it would be pleasant to me to receive a visit from you in my hotel and settle my debt to you as well.
I will not remain with you one minute longer if I do not receive complete satisfaction!
You are going to receive 100,000 Livres.
I have the honour of telling you that the commerce minister would be pleased to receive you this afternoon.
The resigning officials will receive two years pay.
Prepare to receive them in an appropriate manner.
Of course. And if you want to take your seat at the Parliament, before you must officially receive your title.
But for that, you receive the highest honour.
Did you receive sir?
She will receive instructions from me.
From now on any mental suggestion you receive from me must be carried out.
How can she receive anyone?
Shh! Place yourself in position to receive the oath.
If you'd care to follow me, the inspector will receive you.
He is stronger than a team of oxen. and sleepless because of his desire to receive you in his arms.
We've arranged a special ceremony to receive you into our church.
That's a fine way to receive your bride!
Did you know the law. that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort. or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?
They are on their way now to receive it.
If a man shall be drunk on duty, he shall receive the same fate.
And if a man shall molest a woman captive against her will. he, too, shall receive the same punishment.
Oh so, you receive stolen goods, do you?
John Mayer must definitely receive his punishment.
I'm pretty sure that the king will receive me today.
You will then receive 100,000 pounds for it.
I'll check to see if His Highness will receive you.
These ragged, barefoot urchins receive the same education as children the world over.
You are going to receive an amount of money.
Well, you're going to receive a medal.
I don't think it would be quite proper for you to receive her that way.
You'll receive the papers tomorrow.
I would run no risks. and would receive 5,000 francs. later that evening.
Please instruct him to receive me.

News and current affairs

Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
At the same time, small farmers would receive a steady flow of income, which they could use for micro-investments to improve their household's wealth, education, and health.
These are national funds that, in boom years, receive revenues from sales of natural resources to be set aside against a rainy day.
As long as the Saudi regime meets America's oil needs and fights Islamist radicals, it will continue to receive US support and silence - and hence its tacit consent.
Ronald Reagan gained popularity by cutting social benefits for the poor (claiming that the poor cheated to receive extra payments).
Of course, some laboratories receive EU grants, but without recognizing a specific European mission in research policies.
Obama is preoccupied by many pressing problems, and reinventing the international financial system is unlikely to receive his full attention.
The holdouts claimed that, if the new bonds were being serviced in full (as they were), equal treatment required that the holdouts should receive the full amount owed to them (including not only interest but also principal).
If creditors now believe that holding out makes it more likely that they will receive full value at a later date, restructuring sovereign debt and restoring a debtor economy's normal functioning will be more difficult.
For most authors, that would be enough time to earn the bulk of the income that they would ever receive from their writings; after that, the works would be in the public domain.
Meanwhile, Italy's top bureaucrats are the highest paid in history, according to OECD data, with several retired officials drawing larger pensions than former US presidents receive.
So, too, family members staying home who receive money transfers.
They could also receive the full contribution-financed social transfers that the welfare state provides.
Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.
Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.
Micro-credits, for example, are much more efficient when women receive and repay them.
Radical groups receive immense support from the large share of the population that opposes women's rights.
When the good times ended, taxpayers and governments were prepared to rescue them and to ensure that they continued to receive their extraordinary bonuses.
But, even though the additional loans that Greece will soon receive from the European Union and the IMF carry low interest rates, the level of Greek debt will rise rapidly to unsustainable levels.
And important advances have been made in ensuring that immigrant children receive the education that they need to become full members of society.
The prisoners are housed far from anything like mops or other cleaning articles; they are given no chores to perform; and they receive no mail.
This will ensure that poorer nations' views receive a more sympathetic hearing in the future.

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