What's the difference between beneficiary and recipient?

Beneficiary


Definition:

  • (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
  • (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.
  • (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
  • (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (2) However, rates were generally higher than those of Kaiser-Permanente (northern California) enrollees, despite the high use of hospital care by beneficiaries outside of the Military System.
  • (3) When you design something for a “beneficiary”, it may seem okay not to involve them centrally in the process.
  • (4) Otherwise, the far right will be the main beneficiary.
  • (5) The beneficiaries in students families had better, attendance and immunizational coverage, more weight gain and less episodes of illness.
  • (6) In the case of a No vote, they will be the big beneficiary.” Formed only seven years ago, Five Star has become one of Europe’s biggest populist organisations and is now the main opposition in Italy.
  • (7) Make no mistake about who the chief beneficiaries are.
  • (8) So, if you care about the service and the beneficiaries, you’ll probably have to put the hours in.
  • (9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
  • (10) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (11) Gingrich, the latest beneficiary of Adelson's goodwill, suddenly has an outside chance of becoming president.
  • (12) Our aim must be to ensure by our investment that hard working families are the beneficiaries of this era of global economic change.
  • (13) Putin giving money to a company when the beneficiary is his child’s partner is a classic conflict of interest.
  • (14) The insider added that News International is said to be particularly keen to rapidly launch an assault on the Sunday Mirror – one of the biggest beneficiaries of the News of the World's closure – on the basis that the longer it is out of the Sunday market, the more difficult it will be to break readers' loyalty to other titles.
  • (15) While we have long moved past those days, what has survived in the world of global development is the treatment of clients as “beneficiaries”, not consumers.
  • (16) Sheffield, the beneficiary of a promised South Yorkshire stop, may have to make do with a station on the fringes at the Meadowhall shopping centre.
  • (17) Norton told Guardian Australia the beneficiaries of the existing arrangement were “the children of educated people”.
  • (18) In the short run, the use of community-based mental health treatment programs need not be affected by enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in prepaid plans, providing that Medicaid program administrators take steps to minimize the disruption of ongoing treatment, offer beneficiaries a choice among prepaid plans, and encourage community treatment programs to contract with plans to serve beneficiaries.
  • (19) This paper examines ambulatory utilization in a preferred provider organization (PPO) for Uniformed Services beneficiaries at Pacific Medical Center (PMC) in Seattle.
  • (20) However, the Co-op has also said that, even if it does manage to talk to them, it cannot ask for the money back if the beneficiary says they were expecting the money and it is theirs.

Recipient


Definition:

  • (n.) A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
  • (a.) Receiving; receptive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
  • (2) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
  • (3) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
  • (4) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
  • (5) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (6) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
  • (7) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
  • (8) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (9) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
  • (10) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
  • (11) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
  • (12) The immunogenicity of the polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine was studied in renal allograft recipients and dialysis patients.
  • (13) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
  • (14) Our results indicate that in recipients of bioprosthetic valves, careful follow-up with closer surveillance of valve and cardiac function and earlier prosthetic replacement might contribute to reducing the risk of reoperation.
  • (15) Last year, statistics showed that 95% of recipients felt more confident after getting a hearing dog.
  • (16) The pattern of innervation following transplantation indicates that, in repopulating dopamine-deficient cortical areas of recipient weaver mutants, graft-derived dopamine fibres show a preference for those layers which are normally invested by dopamine afferents.
  • (17) Psychological risk factors predicted donor candidates' decisions to participate and their compliance but were not predictive (within the group that completed a cycle) of donor satisfaction as follow-up or recipient pregnancy.
  • (18) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
  • (19) This was true in separate experiments, involving two mammary carcinomata and a 3-methylcholanthrene induced sarcoma, wherein the period of tumour growth in the parent line donor and F(1) hybrid recipient was varied.
  • (20) The potentiated effects are reduced if the recipients are given nonadherent spleen cells.