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• receiver — re·ceiv·er /ri sē vər/ n 1: an officer charged with receiving tax payments or returns and other related duties (as the maintenance of tax rolls) 2: a person appointed by the court to hold in trust and administer property in litigation; esp: one… …   Law dictionary

• Receiver's certificate — Re*ceiv er s cer*tif i*cate An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers certificates are ordinarily a first lien …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• receiver and manager — A person appointed by a secured creditor under a debenture to receive the income and manage the business of a company. For further information, see the Insolvency Service website …   Law dictionary

• Receiver operating characteristic — In signal detection theory, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC), or simply ROC curve, is a graphical plot of the sensitivity vs. (1 specificity) for a binary classifier system as its discrimination threshold is varied. The ROC can also be… …   Wikipedia

• Receiver of Wreck — The Receiver of Wreck, a post defined under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 is an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck in order to: *Give legitimate owners the opportunity to retrieve their… …   Wikipedia

• Receiver (legal) — In law, a receiver is a person placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights. Philip, Ken, and Kerin Kaminski. [http://www.philipco.com/opinion/0704b.pdf Receivership: A… …   Wikipedia

• Receiver (radio) — This article is about a radio receiver, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation). A radio receiver is an electronic circuit that receives its input from an antenna, uses electronic filters to separate a wanted radio signal from all other signals …   Wikipedia

• receiver — noun 1 part of a telephone ADJECTIVE ▪ phone, telephone VERB + RECEIVER ▪ lift, pick up ▪ She took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook …   Collocations dictionary

• Receiver of the Metropolitan Police — The Receiver, formally called The Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District (and sometimes referred to early in the post s existence as the Receiver General), was until 2000 the chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Police in London,… …   Wikipedia

• Receiver General of the Isle of Man — The Receiver General of the Isle of Man was an appointment made by the Lieutenant Governor. Until 1919 the Receiver General had a seat in the Legislative Council.The Receiver, called Receiver General and Collector between 1765 and 1832, and since …   Wikipedia