PONS, Lingvo X3

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Note added at 14 mins (2009-07-07 20:16:50 GMT)
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А също и OED:

1. The office of a receiver (in senses 2a and 2b). Also in extended use.
1485 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 361/1 The Receyvourshipp of the Honour of Leycestre. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §39 The office of receiuorship of the said lordshippe of Bealth. 1590 Swinburne Testaments 233 Accountable of their stewardship, receiuership, and their other offices. 1617 in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 42 My Recevorship of the Lycences of wynes. 1791 Pitt in G. Rose's Diaries (1860) I. 112 A letter applying for the Receivership of Kent. 1850 Smedley F. Fairlegh li, Are you in earnest about the receivership? 1885 Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 40 Preamble, It was ordered that+Beisley should be discharged from the said receivership, and that a fresh receiver should be appointed. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 732 Lenin's reconstructed Communist Party was a much more effective step towards an organized receivership.

2. The condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
1884 Q. Rev. July 79 [The railway] had gone through the lingering diseases of receivership and reorganisation. 1929 Times 30 Oct. 14/2 After the close of the market it became known that the receivership in the Cuba Cane Sugar Company had been made permanent. 1967 R. Stein Great Cars 222/2 Other troubles piled up. In 1921, Lincoln was forced into receivership, and Ford bought the company. 1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. v. 113 The sinking enterprise finally ends up in receivership.

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