receivers

Noun

receiver (plural 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.1850, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words
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.1960 March, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Preston—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 201

   Synonyms:

   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.

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