Receivers
[rɪ'sivɚ]
Examples
- The people concerned in the finances, the farmers-general, the receivers of the taxes which are not in farm, the court-bankers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the next place, we must not let them be receivers of gifts or lovers of money. Plato. The Republic.
- In Egypt the temples or Pharaoh-the-god or the nobles under Pharaoh were the owners and rent receivers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For receiving signals I locate in said circuit between the condensing surface and the ground a diaphragm sounder, which is preferably one of my electromotograph telephone receivers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I made six of these receivers and sent them in charge of an expert on the first steamer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Methods of tuning the instruments have been adopted which limit the influence of the currents to properly tuned receivers and in this way some degree of secrecy is attained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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