noun

• A person who receives.
• (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
• A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
• A person who accepts stolen goods.
• A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
• (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
• (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
• An item or apparatus that receives.
• Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
• (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
• (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
• (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
• (now 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.
• Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
• The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
• (finance) 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.