intended recipient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintendedandrecipient
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intended
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ɪnˈten.dɪd/us/ɪnˈten.dɪd/
the person that you are going ...
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recipient
noun[C]
uk/rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/us/rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/
a person who ...
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(Definition ofintendedandrecipientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofintended recipient
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The man specifies theintendedrecipientof the sperm.
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The preface can take a minimal length of two turns, the first involving talk by the intending teller and the second by anintendedrecipient.
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We remark that the third event signifies that the message reaches some unexpected principal rather than itsintendedrecipient.
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Occasionally, speakers do produce a gazing pose that seems designed specifically to show other-than-addressed recipients that they are not being addressed, while nonetheless gazing at theintendedrecipient.
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In return, the originallyintendedrecipientreceives the next available and medically compatible kidney.
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For this method to work, then, anintendedrecipientmust see the gaze - and others may also need to see it to grasp that someone (else) has been selected.
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And theintendedrecipientrequires a cultural script so that he or she can make sense of what emotion is being conveyed even when an emotion word is not used.
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Paradoxically, the actions of the spy are most meaningful when they are made to appear totally meaningless to everyone except theintendedrecipientof the message.
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Because no principal is assumed to be acting maliciously, no message is intercepted, so a message that is sent is certain to reach itsintendedrecipient.
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The moral justification for this approach is that the originallyintendedrecipientreceives an organ while no one else on the waiting list is put at a disadvantage.
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In the particular case, further explanation to theintendedrecipient, so long after the event, hardly seemed appropriate.
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By the time it reached theintendedrecipient, the person presenting the statement might know nothing about it.
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Maintenance is no good to itsintendedrecipientunless it is received—and received regularly, so that people may plan properly for themselves and their children.
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Perhaps, for instance, the letter is opened by someone else, or for some other reason fails to reach theintendedrecipient.
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It permits service by registered post to the last known abode of theintendedrecipientof the notice.
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Theintendedrecipientwould at once notice the absence and discovery would be made immediately.
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It is only theintendedrecipientwho must have the key.
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The sender of any e-mail that is blocked will be notified and invited to contact theintendedrecipientto arrange for the blocked e-mail to be unblocked.
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Since theintendedrecipientwould need to be satisfied about how he was to render the data intelligible, the clause 8 order would have to address that need.
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