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Receptionist

An office worker employed chiefly to receive visitors and answer the telephone.

Reception

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

Receptionist

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

Reception

(Football) The act or an instance of catching a forward pass.

Receptionist

(theology) A proponent of receptionism.
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Reception

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance
A friendly reception.

Receptionist

A secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors

Reception

A social function, especially one intended to provide a welcome or greeting
A wedding reception.

Reception

Mental approval or acceptance
The reception of a new theory.

Reception

Conversion of transmitted electromagnetic signals into perceptible forms, such as sound or light, by means of antennas and electronic equipment.
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Reception

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

Reception

The act of receiving.

Reception

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

Reception

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

Reception

A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.

Reception

The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

Reception

The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

Reception

(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

Reception

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

Reception

(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.

Reception

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

Reception

The state of being received.

Reception

The act or manner of receiving, especially of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
What reception a poem may find.

Reception

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries have fallen into as extravagant opinions as even common reception countenanced.

Reception

A retaking; a recovery.

Reception

The manner in which something is greeted;
She did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors

Reception

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Reception

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

Reception

The act of receiving

Reception

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;
The tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line

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