Word Finder - received

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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

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She received many presents for her birthday.

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To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

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To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

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to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

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To incur (an injury).

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I received a bloody nose from the collision.

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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

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To detect a signal from a transmitter.

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To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

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To accept into the mind; to understand.

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Generally accepted as correct or true.

A cold pillow received her hand.

That evening he received a call in his office.

I received a post card from Jeff—from Norfolk.

I received another paper and a table of signs by return mail, and I set to work to learn the notation.

Among the dogs which received the most attention were the bulldogs.

I passed in everything, and received "honours" in German and English.

Pierre received him unwillingly at first, but got used to him after a while, sometimes even accompanied him on his carousals, and gave him money under the guise of loans.

Each received a scroll with information on their first day of training and assignments.

Each of us received a six figure hiring bonus.

We received one piece of good news during our blackout period.

Before Betsy and I left for the airport, we received incredible news!

He also asked for and received Byrne's department personnel file.

A person of very high standing in our Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor.

In truth, the raw information funneled to us was transmitted as received after passing through our office.

Xander received a text a minute later.

And when after Pierre's departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune.

Some days after Anatole's departure Pierre received a note from Prince Andrew, informing him of his arrival and asking him to come to see him.

As soon as he reached Moscow, Prince Andrew had received from his father Natasha's note to Princess Mary breaking off her engagement (Mademoiselle Bourienne had purloined it from Princess Mary and given it to the old prince), and he heard from him the story of Natasha's elopement, with additions.

The skull of the driver bore the distinctive damage Howie had received in his earlier accident.

He's as nervous as when he first received the notice to serve.

Two days after landing in the United States, Dean received a phone call from Fred O'Connor, the stepfather he'd yet to meet, informing him his mother was gravely ill.

Rostov received his tumbler, and adding some rum to it asked Mary Hendrikhovna to stir it.

Martha looked for approval and received it tacitly from all but her husband.

I explained the situation briefly and the patrolman recognized I was the object of the call he'd just received from Jackson.

Over dessert, the Bird Song Three received the report.

She should have received the key back from Cleary.

Maybe Corbin just used it too and received some mail there.

Louis, who was the eldest of four children, received from his mother a strict religious training.

Leo sent a new nuncio to Copenhagen (1521) in the person of the Minorite Francesco de Potentia, who readily absolved the king and received the rich bishopric of Skara.

A theory that has received much support in the past attributes the reflections to thin bubbles of water, similar to soap-bubbles, in which form vapour was supposed to condense.

In 1619 he received by bequest, ratified in 1620 by royal grant, the duchy of Angouleme.

Related to the tetrahedron are two spheres which have received much attention.

The West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home near Huntington is not under state control, but has received appropriations from the legislature.

In October he appears dining in the hall there as a guest, and at Christmas 1442 he received a royal livery, five yards of violet cloth, as provost of Eton.

On the 22nd of September 1481 Waynflete received Edward IV.

Benjamin Disraeli chose the title of earl of Beaconsfield in 1876, his wife having in 1868 received the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield.

In 1827 he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow.

Cattle-raising, however, has received some attention and is the principal industry of the landowners.

Thus unfortunate in his birth, young Hastings received the elements of education at a charity school in his native village.

An agreement was come to by which Francis received patronage for his circle of friends, while Hastings was to be unimpeded in the control of foreign affairs.

In 1813 he was called on to give evidence upon Indian affairs before the two houses of parliament, which received him with exceptional marks of respect.

By the public he was always regarded as reserved, but within his own inner circle he gave and received perfect confidence.

Rouvier was able to make a statement of the whole proceedings in the chamber, which received the assent of all parties.

A convention on the religious orders was concluded in 1904, but had not received the assent of the Senate in 1908.

It is the seat of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and of Hobart College (nonsectarian), which was first planned in 1812, was founded in 1822 (the majority of its incorporators being members of the Protestant Episcopal church) as successor to Geneva Academy, received a full charter as Geneva College in 1825, and was renamed Hobart Free College in 1852 and Hobart College in 1860, in honour of Bishop John Henry Hobart.

In July 1644 he went to Dorsetshire on military service, and on the 3rd of August received a commission as field-marshal general.

On the breaking out of the Dutch War in 1664 he was made treasurer of the prizes, being accountable to the king alone for all sums received or spent.

Schweidnitz, dating from about the 11th century, received civic rights in 1250.

He was ordained at Zurich, and from him Court himself received ordination.

It was one of the ancient manors of the Butlers, who received for it the grant of a fair from Henry VIII.