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Plural of receiver

regular plural

The plural of receiver is receivers.

Forms of receiver

Singularreceiver /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/
Pluralreceivers
Countablecountable

Receivers in a sentence

  • 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.1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
  • Two of the receivers ran post patterns.From the entry post
  • Dot-connecting exercises have pegged New Orleans Saints wide receivers Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed to the Broncos.2025 November 3, Nick Kosmider, “Why I expect the Broncos to stand pat at the NFL trade deadline”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry dot-connecting
  • Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe. From the entry pass
  • The guests, on the other hand, are unprofessionals, the mere receivers of service, the others.2011, Jon Sundbo, Marja Toivonen, User-based Innovation in Services, page 59. From the entry unprofessional

Meaning of receiver

  1. noun An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
  2. noun A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
  3. noun A person who accepts stolen goods.

Full definition of receiver

Questions about the plural of receiver

What is the plural of receiver?
The plural of receiver is receivers.
Is receiver countable?
Receiver is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: receiver (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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