net recipient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnetandrecipient
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net
adjective[before or after noun]
uk/net/us/net/
left when there is nothing else to be ...
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recipient
noun[C]
uk/rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/us/rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/
a person who ...
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(Definition ofnetandrecipientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnet recipient
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Older people who were net recipients of support from their children or grandchildren tended to be aged 70 or more years, female and widowed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Quebec is anetrecipientof transfer payments from the federal government, and it uses those payments to pay for social programs, including education.
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Wikipedia
Tradability implies that countries or regions holding surplus quota would be net sellers (exporters) of quota, and hence net recipients of financial transfers from quota-deficit countries.
From theCambridge English Corpus
You will have to reconcile the differences between net contributors and net recipients, between those afraid of being milked and those afraid of being short-changed.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Changes have been made in respect of structural and cohesion funds, to prevent net recipients from blocking efficiency and cost savings.
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As we extend membership to more and more and even poorer eastern states, the proportion of net recipients will increase to perhaps two-thirds.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is not lost on some countries that they would be turned from net recipients into net contributors.
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It is certainly right that most of the member states are net recipients.
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Which net recipients are prepared to receive less in order to solve the budget problem?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Will some countries be net contributors and others, net recipients, and if so, which?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
That is precisely what drags us into this lamentable tension between net contributors and net recipients, into a situation where everyone looks for winners and losers.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
That will not be easy for some to accept, especially those who are currently net recipients or who have particularly acute regional differences, but they will need to do so.
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Hansard archive
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All other member states were net recipients.
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Net recipients are shown as negative.
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This will self-evidently be at the expense of current net contributors, but it will also be at the expense of current members that are net recipients.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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