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be at/on the receiving end
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be at/on the receiving end
if you are on the receiving end of something unpleasant that someone does, you suffer because of it. Sales assistants are often at the receiving end of verbal abuse from customers. (usually + of)
See also: end, receive

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MUMBAI, India -- India cannot afford to miss the revolution in nanotechnology, according to one of India's most eminent scientists, C N R Rao, "we should not be at the receiving end when the world is driven by nanotechnology.
 
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