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recipiency
[ri-sip-ee-uhn-see]
noun
the act of receiving; reception.
the state or quality of being receptive; receptiveness.
Other Word Forms
- nonrecipience noun
- nonrecipiency noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of recipiency1
Example Sentences
The share of workers who claim unemployment, known as the “recipiency rate,” has declined in recent decades to only about a third of those who lose jobs.
Virginia, which has relatively limited benefits, also has starkly low recipiency rates among the unemployed — with the third-lowest average rate in the nation over the past two decades, the audit found.
“In a time when pretty much everybody who’s applying should be eligible, we’re working with a system that got us to a 26 percent recipiency rate,” said Steve Gray, the director of Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency.
Between 1980 and 2011, the DI recipiency rate doubled from 2.3% to 4.7%.
The percipient mind is no mere recipiency or susceptibility with its forms of time and space: it is spontaneously active, it is the source of categories, or is an apperceptive power,—an understanding.
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