Usually means: Events organized for welcoming guests.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. receptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. receptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Receptions, reception's, receptions: Wordnik
  5. receptions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. receptions: Wiktionary
  7. receptions: Dictionary.com
  8. receptions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Receptions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. receptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receptions: Encyclopedia

(Note: See reception as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reception)

noun:  The act of receiving.
noun:  (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
noun:  A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
noun:  A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
noun:  The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
noun:  (UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
noun:  (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
noun:  (American football) The act of catching a pass.
noun:  (linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
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