receiver

noun receivers

1. historical An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
2. A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient. I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
3. A person who accepts stolen goods.
4. A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.

   Similar: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy

5. An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
6. A person who attempts to return the serve.
7. Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
8. A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
9. historical An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum. A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
10. The part of a firearm containing the action.
11. 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.
12. Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

    Opposite: transmitter

13. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece. There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
14. 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.