Plural of recipient

regular plural

The plural of recipient is recipients.

Forms of recipient

Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.From the entry in
The normal state of human affairs is many-to-many communications, each source going out to many recipients, but each recipient also having multiple sources.From the entry many-to-many
Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine coming complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients.2022 September 23, 0:07 from the start, in As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums? • FRANCE 24 English…. From the entry get out the vote
Surprise your recipients by adding some pseudographical glitz to your email signature.2008, Philipp Lenssen, Google Apps Hacks, page 126. From the entry pseudographical

noun One who receives.
noun A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
noun The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

What is the plural of recipient?: The plural of recipient is recipients.
Is recipient countable?: Recipient is a countable noun.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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