Usually means: Accepts delivery or possession of.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word receives:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. receives: Merriam-Webster
  2. receives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. receives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Receives, receives: Wordnik
  5. receives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. receives: Wiktionary
  7. receives: Dictionary.com
  8. receives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. receives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receives: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receives: Idioms

(Note: See receive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (receive)

verb:  (transitive) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
verb:  (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
verb:  (transitive) To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To incur (an injury).
verb:  To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
verb:  (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
verb:  (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
verb:  (tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.
verb:  (American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
noun:  (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
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