receive🔊

To be given, sent, or paid something.

(dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.

(law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

To incur (an injury).

To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

(sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

(squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.

(American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.