Inheritor - English meaning

noun

A person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Usage examples:

The grantee sued the grantor upon his covenant to maintain the road.

noun

A person or organization that receives a grant

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Any unused funds should be returned by the grantee at the end of the project.

noun

A person or organization that legally owns land or property

Usage examples:

After the transfer of his estate, his former tenant became the legal grantee.

noun

A person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

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His eldest son and heir

noun

A person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other person dies

Usage examples:

Heir to the guest of honour was the romanov heir to the throne of all russia., son and heir despite…

noun

Someone who now has responsibility for dealing with a problem or situation that existed or was created earlier

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Heir to the french finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to lou…

noun

A woman who is legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

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An oil heiress

noun

A woman or girl who will receive or already has received a lot of money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that person dies

Usage examples:

The heiress to the throne, a texan oil heiress

noun

A person who receives a legacy.

Usage examples:

His sister alice was his principal legatee

noun

Someone who receives money or property from a person who has died

Usage examples:

She then transferred the freehold to her intended legatees.

noun

A person who shares with others in the inheritance of an undivided estate or in the rights to it.

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So long as the lands continue to descend, they remain parceners.

noun

The part of a telephone apparatus contained in the earpiece, in which electrical signals are converted into sounds.

Usage examples:

Working independently, gray and bell both developed systems based on electromagnetic receivers with…

noun

A person or thing that receives or is awarded something.

Usage examples:

The recipient of the nobel peace prize

adjective

Receiving or capable of receiving something.

Usage examples:

A recipient country

noun

A person who receives something

Usage examples:

Lund was the first female recipient of an artificial heart.

noun

A person or thing that succeeds another.

Usage examples:

Schoenberg saw himself as a natural successor to the german romantic school

noun

Someone or something that follows and takes the job, place, or position that was held by another

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The company will announce the appointment of a successor to its retiring chairman at the next board…

noun

Someone or something that comes after another person or thing

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Successor to sb/sth she has been appointed successor to the retiring chief executive., network rail…