receive

re|ceive [ rı`siv ] verb ***

▸ 1 get something given to you

▸ 2 have treatment etc.

▸ 3 react in particular way

▸ 4 formally welcome someone

▸ 5 get electronic signal

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) transitive FORMAL to get something that someone gives or sends to you:

Fewer people receive welfare benefits now.

She received a camera as a twenty-fifth birthday present.

We have not received your letter.

receive something from someone: His views have received support from an unlikely source.

The principal has already received several calls from angry parents.

a ) intransitive or transitive to deliberately accept or buy stolen goods, usually in order to sell them:

He was charged with receiving stolen goods.

b ) intransitive or transitive if you receive a ball in a game, someone throws, hits, or kicks it toward you

2. ) transitive FORMAL to have a particular type of treatment or experience:

Several of the victims are receiving hospital treatment for burns.

He received a five-year prison sentence.

We received a visit from the pastor.

3. ) transitive usually passive to react to something in a particular way:

Heather's proposals were received without much enthusiasm.

4. ) transitive to formally welcome a visitor:

Our group was received by the Brazilian ambassador.

a ) to officially accept someone into a group:

receive someone into something: Several opponents of women priests were received into the Catholic Church.

b ) FORMAL to see visitors:

What time can patients receive visitors?

5. ) transitive to get pictures or sound on a television, radio, or mobile phone:

With a satellite dish you can receive hundreds of channels.

a ) to be able to hear a radio message:

Are you receiving me?

at/on the receiving end (of something)

affected by something unpleasant:

You don't want to be on the receiving end of her anger!