recipients
USruh-SIP-ee-uhnts/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənts/UKri-SIP-ee-uhnts/ɹɪˈsɪp.i.ənts/
- 1Plural of recipient.
Scholarship recipients must maintain a high grade average each semester.
Email recipients were warned not to open the suspicious attachment.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that serves every noun use of recipient: people who receive awards or messages, patients who receive donor organs, and even the parts of a still where distilled liquid collects. The adjective recipient, meaning "receiving," takes no plural, so in a phrase like recipient nations the word stays singular before a plural noun.
recipients is a form of recipient
recipient, noun: The person who receives something that is given, sent, or awarded to them. Full entry
- Forms
- recipientrecipients plural
- Spelling
- recipient → recipients: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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