recipient

Definitions

re- (back) + -cip- (Latin recipiens, present participle of recipere, "taking") + -ient (one who is doing) = "the one who is taking / receiving." Here the root capere appears as its third variant -cip-, the same weakened vowel found in recipe. A recipient is simply "the one doing the receiving": an award recipient, a transplant recipient.

Common Collocations

• 1.award recipient获奖者
• 2.intended recipient预定收件人
• 3.transplant recipient移植受者
• 4.welfare recipient福利受助者

Example Sentences

• 1.

  She was the recipient of this year's top award.

• 2.

  The email reached its intended recipient.

• 3.

  The transplant recipient is recovering well.