RECEIVED


Meaning of RECEIVED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an accepted/received notion (= an idea that most people believe )

These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.

be gratefully received

All contributions will be gratefully received .

received a...fillip

British athletics received a tremendous fillip when Wells won the Gold.

Received Pronunciation

received...death sentence

He received a death sentence .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

also

He also received surgery at Broomfield Hospital, and his condition was later described as stable.

Hendley's lover, Terry McIntosh, 46, who admitted murder, also received life.

But she underwent counselling, and also received support from Sheila McLean, a Gerson therapist and former nurse.

Patients drank a bottle of magnesium citrate each night and also received tap water enemas until the return was clear.

Four other militia and Securitate members also received prison sentences.

If necessary, patients also received enemas the morning of the procedure.

■ NOUN

opinion

Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.

wisdom

This is what received wisdom says.

I am, in this regard, simply challenging received wisdom as to which is the chicken and which the egg.

They became part of received wisdom , and to some extent, they remain so.

His entire performance is magnificently unsettling and is no sense the Liszt Sonata of received wisdom .

There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification.

Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny.

A consequence of breaking new ground is that received wisdom becomes a poor guide.

The received wisdom in pellet form, with some of the pellets poisoned.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom

Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom .

Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.

He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.

Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.

That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom .

This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.

Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.

We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Sontag's articles challenged received notions about photography.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Innovation, as so often in the market itself, is seen primarily within these received terms.

Such a search will involve itself of course with received institutions; certainly it will go beyond them.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.