receiving end
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreceiveandend
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receive
verb[T]
uk/rɪˈsiːv/us/rɪˈsiːv/
to get or be ...
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end
noun
uk/end/us/end/
the part of a place or thing that is furthest away from ...
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(Definition ofreceiveandendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Analysis is one way to investigate what is going on in music from thereceivingend.
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Families are not simply on thereceivingendof political power.
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The agreement was high when the poorest person was at thereceivingendof the transfer.
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However, we know much less about what the children on thereceivingendthink and feel about poverty.
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The chastisement of elders made the rebels exciting, but local youths increasingly found themselves on thereceivingend.
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Reformed ministers in particular were at thereceivingendof many of his polemical tracts in defence of religious tolerance.
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One experience on thereceivingendwas sufficient to make me particularly wary of it in my teaching.
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They are always on thereceivingend.
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I have been at thereceivingend.
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It must be at thereceivingend.
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I was on thereceivingend.
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I am at thereceivingend.
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We are at thereceivingend.
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Teenagers' perceived needs and access to primary health care accountability to the young people at thereceivingendof health services.
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In 1990, a firm would have sliced its drawings into strips to be fed through a fax machine for reassembly at thereceivingend.
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Increases in revenue sharing through time were thus a real boon to the governors on thereceivingendof these transfers.
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As a consequence, this means that translation ought to be seen as an activity primarily taking place at thereceivingend.
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The result is confusion and waste at thereceivingend.
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I have a major interest at thereceivingend.
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A great deal depends on having a goodreceivingend.
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The individual at thereceivingendwill have no choice.
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I have been on thereceivingendof that.
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We are on thereceivingendon imports.
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We might say that they are at thereceivingend.
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