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How to pronounce “receive”
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Pronunciation guide for receive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of receive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- GiveDirectly: Nonprofit Cash Transfer
managing our team, signing people up to receive cash.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce receive
GiveDirectly: Nonprofit Cash Transfer

managing our team, signing people up to receive cash.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “receive”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
- (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
- (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- (transitive) To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
- [Noun]
- (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
Practice Nearby Words
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