What's the difference between receiver and receivership?

Receiver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.
  • (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.
  • (n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
  • (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
  • (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
  • (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
  • (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
  • (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
  • (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
  • (2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
  • (7) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
  • (10) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
  • (11) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (12) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (13) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (14) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
  • (16) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (17) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
  • (18) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (19) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
  • (20) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.

Receivership


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or office of a receiver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Gherkin, voted London's favourite tower, has been put into receivership 10 years after its completion helped transform the capital's skyline.
  • (2) • Being processed now: Balram Chainrai – estranged business associate of Arkady, business partner of Levi Kushnir, a veteran of three company receiverships.
  • (3) HMV Ireland collapsed into receivership yesterday and 16 shops in the Republic closed their doors.
  • (4) On the 90th day they told me they were going into receivership.
  • (5) Barclays eventually bought the remnants of Lehman's Wall Street operation from receivership for $1.75bn - a sum that has enraged certain bankruptcy creditors who believe it was a windfall for the British bank.
  • (6) Duncan Matthews QC, for the defence, said the assets Ablyazov failed to declare were "a drop in the ocean" compared to the estimated $5bn of assets he was forced to place into receivership under the control of accountants KPMG.
  • (7) Asked if his father had been influential in securing the deal from Leicester, Richards Jr said: “It is fair to say my dad is and continues to be on the world sporting stage.” Richards Jr confirmed the name Trestellar echoes his father’s former engineering company, Three Star Engineering, which went into administrative receivership in 2001.
  • (8) In 2005, he brokered agreements to get 6,500 Rover workers into new jobs after the company went into receivership.
  • (9) Kids Company was put into receivership in the summer shortly after the Cabinet Office had approved a new government grant of £3m.
  • (10) It emerged on Thursday that Filan was declared bankrupt this week at Kingston county court in Surrey, a month after his Irish-based property development company went into receivership.
  • (11) The consent decree included termination of the court's active supervision of the state's mental health system, termination of the receivership, and termination of the court monitor's powers.
  • (12) The authors describe the use of troika management and administrative receivership to upgrade a unit in a state mental hospital.
  • (13) "If it did go into receivership, hedge funds would find themselves in a terrible jam," said Samuel Hayes at Harvard University.
  • (14) The board of directors at Landsbanki has been dismissed and the bank put into receivership.
  • (15) Driven by a consortium of volume housebuilders, and designed by the ill-fated architecture practice RMJM – recently forced into receivership before being rescued by an investment company – the athletes' village did not bode particularly well on paper.
  • (16) However, hit by competition from cheaper instruments made in Eastern Europe and China, it went into receivership last December.
  • (17) In addition to these 3,635 liquidations, a further 1,027 firms went into administration, 345 went into receivership and 157 entered into company voluntary arrangements.
  • (18) It is now more than 90% let, with 3,000 people working in the building, but it almost fell into receivership last year when a consortium of banks led by Wells Fargo called in a £300m construction loan.
  • (19) It seized control of Landsbanki , forcing it into receivership.
  • (20) A Deloitte spokesman said the tenants would not be affected by the receivership.

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