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Definition of receiving : of Receive

Synonyms:

greeting, nodding, saluting, approaching, kissing, welcoming, signaling, bowing, acknowledging, noticing, waving, curtsying, hailing, accosting, embracing, smiling, shaking hands with, vociferating, kowtowing, hugging

containing, enclosing, comprising, accommodating, holding, stowing, including

encountering, gathering, bumping into, assembling, joining, running into, meeting

devouring, admitting, inspiring, ingesting, gulping, accepting, engorging, absorbing, assimilating, eating, swallowing, gobbling, getting, accessing, taking, inhaling, pocketing, acquiring

drawing, earning, bringing in, being given, gaining, making, inheriting

collecting, amassing, annexing, accumulating, assuming, harvesting, catching, obtaining, capturing, claiming, netting, fetching, landing, heaping, palming, bagging, winning, luring, securing, procuring, garnering, scoring, incurring, retrieving, buying, reaping, cornering, adding, wrangling, purchasing

Usage examples:

• Merely the cost of receiving. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• Now we are ready to study the receiving circuit of Fig. - "Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son", John Mills.
• Within a few days she was sitting up, receiving her friends and was planning on going back to Mrs. Stacey's. - "The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan", Lizette M. Edholm.