Donor

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A donor in general is a person that donates something voluntarily. Usually used to represent a form of pure altruism but sometimes used when the payment for a service is recognised by all parties as representing less than the value of the donation and that the motivation is altruistic. In business law, a donor is someone who is giving the gift, and a donee the person receiving the gift.

Often the word is used as a short for:

• Blood donor
• Electron donor — (by analogy) a technical term in chemistry and semiconductor physics (see also the next entry)
• Acceptor (semiconductors)
• Organ donor
• Sperm donor
• Charitable donor
• Egg Donor

In art:

• donor portrait, portrait of the person who paid for a painting, typically in a church

In literature:

• Donor (fairy tale) is a stock character of fairy tales

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