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Substantiivi

1. A person who receives.
2. (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
3. A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
4. A person who accepts stolen goods.
5. A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
6. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
7. (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
8. An item or apparatus that receives.
9. Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
10. (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
11. (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
12. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
13. (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
14. Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
15. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
16. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.