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Definitions: Receivership |
ReceivershipNoun1. The state of property that is in the hands of a receiver; "the business is in receivership". 2. A court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all. 3. The office of a receiver. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "receivership" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | The state of being under the administration of a receiver. A receivership removes the institution or company in receivership from its owners, who lose their equity. Since a receivership ends the corporate existence of an institution or company, it stops the payment of stock dividends and interest on debt. See conservatorship. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Receivership |
| Specialty definitions using "receivership": conservatorship. (references) |
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Business | Five domestic manufacturers including Sambo Co., Halla Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Dainong Heavy Industries Inc, Kwang Lim Co., Ltd., and Soosan Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. went bankrupt or are currently under court receivership. (references) | |
Economic History | Kenya | The sector also saw two cash-strapped sugar factories placed in receivership. (references) |
Australia | The fate of the network built by failed carrier One.Tel, which went into receivership in June 2001, is yet to be decided. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Receivership" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Receivership" is used about 197 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 197 | 21,803 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
receivership | 48 |
receivership recovery | 3 |
definition receivership | 2 |
florida receivership | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "receivership"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 产管理人职务. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | curator in een faillissement (trusteeship in bankruptcy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقام امانت(حق.), امانت دادگاه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | administration-séquestre, administration de la masse, administration de la faillite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Konkursverwaltung (trusteeship in bankruptcy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαχείριση περιουσίασ εν χρεωκοπία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sequestro(giudiziario) (trusteeship in bankruptcy), curatela fallimentare (trusteeship in bankruptcy), curatela del fallimento (trusteeship in bankruptcy), amministrazione fallimentare (trusteeship in bankruptcy), amministrazione della massa fallimentare (trusteeship in bankruptcy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 管財 (administration of property, custodianship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"ざい (administration of property, custodianship, dry lumber, freezing mixture, refrigerant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | resowirys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eceivershipray преемственность (continuity, succession). (various references) sindicatura (trusteeship in bankruptcy). (various references) การเป็นผู้รับไว้. (various references) yedieminlik (trusteeship), tasfiye halinde bulunma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "receivership": receiverships. (additional references) | |
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"Receivership" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: receivorship, recievership. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "receivership" (pronounced rusē"vershi'p or rēsē"vershi'p) |
| 4 | -er sh i' p | ambassadorship, authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, governorship, leadership, membership, ownership, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, ridership, scholarship, speakership, sponsorship, viewership. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | airship, apprenticeship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, consulship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lightship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, premiership, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, spaceship, sportsmanship, starship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, warship, workmanship. |
| 4 | -er sh i' p | ambassadorship, authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, governorship, leadership, membership, ownership, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, ridership, scholarship, speakership, sponsorship, viewership. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | airship, apprenticeship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, consulship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lightship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, premiership, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, spaceship, sportsmanship, starship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, warship, workmanship. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-i-i-p-r-r-s-v" | |
-2 letters: perceivers, preservice. | |
-3 letters: perceiver, perceives, receivers, reprieves, reservice. | |
-4 letters: cheepers, cheerers, cheerier, cheesier, cherries, chirpers, chirpier, creepers, creepier, creepies, crispier, perceive, perchers, perverse, piercers, preciser, preserve, receiver, receives, reechier, reprices, reprieve, reveries, rivieres, servicer, shiverer, spherier, viperish. | |
-5 letters: ceriphs, cheeper, cheerer, chevies, chevres, chirper, chirres, chivies, ciphers, creeper, creepie, crepier, crisper, epeiric, herries, peeries, peevish, percher, perches, perries, piecers, piercer, pierces, precise, previse, pricers, pricier, prisere, privier, privies, receive, recipes, rehires, reivers, reprice, reprise, reserve, respire, reveres, reverie, reverse, reviser, rievers, riviere, scirrhi, scrieve, seepier, service, severer, seviche, sheerer, shrieve, shriver, spheric, spicier, spirier, veeries, vichies. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-h-i-i-p-r-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: receiverships. | |
+5 letters: hyperreactivities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 65 69 76 65 72 73 68 69 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. . .. ...- . .-. ... .... .. .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c e i v e r s h i p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 0065 0069 0076 0065 0072 0073 0068 0069 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527169717588718485747582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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