donor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++do·nor /ˈdəʊnə $ ˈdoʊnər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 1 SSOGIVEa person, group etc that gives something, especially money, to help an organization or country 捐赠者〔尤指捐款者〕 → donate We urgently need more assistance from donor countries (=countries that give money, food etc to help in poor countries or disaster areas). 我们急需捐赠国的更多援助。 An anonymous donor (=whose name is unknown) has given £500 towards the restoration fund. 一位匿名捐赠者向重建基金捐了500英镑。2 MHsomeone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else 献血者；捐献器官者 → donate Some patients die before a suitable donor is found. 有些病人在找到合适的器官捐献者之前就已死去。blood/organ/kidney etc donor the shortage of blood donors 献血者紧缺n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: someone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone elseADJECTIVES/NOUN + donor a suitable donorAfter a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.a blood donorAre you willing to register as a blood donor?an organ donorThere are not nearly enough organ donors.a heart/liver/kidney etc donorThere is a shortage of kidney donors.a sperm/egg donor (=a man who gives sperm or a woman who gives eggs to help someone else have a baby)Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.donor + NOUNa donor organShe had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.a donor heart/liver/kidney etcThe technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.donor bloodDonor blood had to be used during the operation.a donor card (=that you carry to give permission for your organs to be used if you die)Do you carry a donor card?
Examples from the Corpus
donor• The museum received $10,000 from an anonymous donor.• Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.• That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34,700 blood donors nationwide, he said.• Finding a liver donor may be difficult.• In return, major donors were granted various privileges, depending on how much they had given.• Moreover, dozens of donors came from outside New York state.• In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.• Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.• Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.anonymous donor• The Free Presbyterians' fines were paid by an anonymous donor.• An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.• Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows' front verandah.• It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.• Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.• The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor.• The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.blood/organ/kidney etc donor• That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34,700 blood donors nationwide, he said.• Who can become a blood donor?• Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.• Patterson wrote his daughter in November offering to be her kidney donor.• In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.• Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.• The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.From Longman Business Dictionarydonordo‧nor /ˈdəʊnəˈdoʊnər/ noun [countable] someone who gives money or other valuable things to people who are ill, hungry, poor etcHis fines were paid by an anonymous donor.Japan is Asia’s biggest foreign aid donor, giving over $1.1 billion in official development assistance and loans.Origin donor (1400-1500) Old French doneur, from Latin donare “to give”do·nor noun →n COLLOCATIONS1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable
something, person, Corpus etc to gives that group money, a especially Business
donor
do‧nor /ˈdəʊnə $ ˈdoʊnər/
noun [countable]
We urgently need more assistance from donor countries (=countries that give money, food etc to help in poor countries or disaster areas).
An anonymous donor (=whose name is unknown) has given £500 towards the restoration fund.
2. someone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else ⇨ donate:
Some patients die before a suitable donor is found.
blood/organ/kidney etc donor
the shortage of blood donors
■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + donor
▪a suitable donor After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found.
▪a blood donor Are you willing to register as a blood donor?
▪an organ donor There are not nearly enough organ donors.
▪a heart/liver/kidney etc donor There is a shortage of kidney donors.
▪a sperm/egg donor (=a man who gives sperm or a woman who gives eggs to help someone else have a baby) Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.
■ donor + NOUN
▪a donor organ She had to wait for over a year before a donor organ became available.
▪a donor heart/liver/kidney etc The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
▪donor blood Donor blood had to be used during the operation.
▪a donor card (=that you carry to give permission for your organs to be used if you die) Do you carry a donor card?
do‧nor /ˈdəʊnə $ ˈdoʊnər/
noun [countable] Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: doneur, from Latin donare 'to give'
1. a person, group etc that gives something, especially money, to help an organization or country ⇨ donate:Language: Old French
Origin: doneur, from Latin donare 'to give'
2. someone who gives blood or a body organ so that it can be used in the medical treatment of someone else ⇨ donate:
blood/organ/kidney etc donor
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