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re·ceiv·ing

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  1. Receiving

    of Receive

Editors Contribution

  1. receivingverb

    Verb form of the word receive.

    The data was sending and receiving in real-time and the system was working efficiently, everyone was very happy with it.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 3, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'receiving' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3385

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'receiving' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3994

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of receiving in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of receiving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of receiving in a Sentence

  1. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele:

    Gangs increased the murders throughout the country after receiving orders from inside the jail cells, according to intelligence reports.

  2. Vianey Kombi:

    We have all been accused of receiving money to say that we had Ebola.

  3. Janet Yellen:

    Nearly 50 million seniors could stop receiving Social Security payments or receive them delayed.

  4. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

    At the moment there are millions of Syrians who are displaced. There are refugee camps -- in Lebanon, in Jordan, in Turkey -- receiving 4 to 5 million Syrians. And we're not going to receive 4 to 5 million Syrians, so the problem has to be dealt with at source, these are very difficult subjects. And of course, in Syria, so long as we haven't found a political solution; so long as we haven't destroyed this terrorist group, Islamic State; so long as we haven't got rid of Bashar Assad; we will not find a solution.

  5. James Michel:

    This is what we’ve been fighting for, for a long time, we are not warming the planet … but then we are at the receiving end.

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