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means A person or thing that receives something — a gift, a letter, a transplant, blame, whatever's being handed out.

from From Latin recipientem, present participle of recipere — 'to take back, receive,' built from re- ('back') plus capere ('to take'). The same capere gives us 'capture' and 'capacity,' so a recipient is etymologically someone with the capacity to have something taken-and-given back into their hands, like it or not.