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Receiver or receive may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Roles and professions

• Receiver, a person who receives goods in a distribution center
• Receiver, in receivership, a person appointed as a custodian of another entity's property by a court of law or a creditor of the owner, pending a lawsuit or bankruptcy
• Metropolitan Police Receiver, formerly the chief financial officer of the London Metropolitan Police
• Receiver of Wreck, an official of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency of the United Kingdom, who is concerned with the management of wrecked ships and boats

Sports

• Receiver, a type of midfielder in Australian rules football
• Wide receiver, an offensive position in American and Canadian football leagues

Technology

• Receiver (firearms), which houses the working parts of the firearm
• Receiver (modulated ultrasound), a device that converts a modulated ultrasonic wave into usable information
• Receiver (radio), an electronic device that converts a signal from a modulated radio wave into usable information
  • Tuner (radio), a subsystem that receives radio frequency (RF) transmissions and converts into a fixed frequency
• Receiver, the listening device part of a telephone
  • The headset (audio) that can also contain the above device
  • The handset that sometimes contains the above device
• AV receiver, part of a home theater system
• Citrix Receiver, a software client application used for virtualization
• Digital media receiver
• Television set, "telly" (UK), is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television
  • Tuner (television), a subsystem that converts radio frequency analog television or digital television transmission into audio and video signals
• Milk receiver, the part of a milking machine setup in which milk is collected: see milking pipeline

Other uses

• Receiver (information theory), the receiving end of a communications channel

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with receive
• All pages with titles containing receive*
• Receipt
• Receiving (disambiguation)
• Reception (disambiguation)
• Receptor (biochemistry)