receivership

C2+ Topic:Law & Government

US /rɪˈsivɚʃɪp/ UK /rɪˈsiːvəʃɪp/ See IPA manual

noun

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1

noun
the state of being managed by a court-appointed receiver

The bankrupt company was placed in receivership.

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1 noun · the state of being managed... administration liquidation bankruptcy insolvency

Word family

Related forms receiver receive receipt

Etymology

From receiver + -ship; receiver from Old French receveor, from Latin recipere ('to receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take').

recipere Latin capere Latin

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# receivership

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** rɪˈsivɚʃɪp
**IPA (UK):** rɪˈsiːvəʃɪp

## Meanings
1. the state of being managed by a court-appointed receiver

## Examples
- The bankrupt company was placed in receivership.

## Synonyms
- administration
- liquidation
- bankruptcy
- insolvency

## Related Forms
- receiver
- receive
- receipt

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: recipere
- Root: capere

## Etymology
From receiver + -ship; receiver from Old French receveor, from Latin recipere ('to receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take').

## AI Etymology
Receivership comes from receiver + -ship; receiver from Old French receveor, from Latin recipere ('to receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take'). The historical chain includes Latin recipere and Latin capere. The quoted older senses, "to receive", "back", and "to take", supply the semantic anchors for receivership. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word receivership carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the state of being managed by a court-appointed receiver". Related English forms include receiver, receive, and receipt. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Law & Government
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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