Definition of: receiver

(rī·se′vər) noun
1. One who receives; a recipient.
2. An official assigned to receive money due.
3. Law A person appointed by a court to take into his custody, control, and management the property or funds of another pending judicial action concerning them.
4. One who buys or receives stolen or embezzled goods, knowing them to be stolen.
5. Something which receives; a receptacle.
6. A vessel considered as a receptacle for a gas or fluid, as a jar for receiving and condensing a fluid that has been distilled.
7. A bolthead.
8. Telecom. An instrument in an electric circuit serving to receive and reproduce signals transmitted from another part of the circuit: a telephone receiver.
9. A radio or television receiving set.