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A donor in general is a person that donate
Donation

A donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for Charitable organization purposes and/or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, including cash, Service , new or used goods including but not limited to clothing, toys, food, vehicles, it also may consist of emergency, relief or humanitarian aid items, dev...
s something voluntarily. Usually used to represent a form of pure altruism
Altruism

Altruism is the deliberate pursuit of the interests or welfare of others or the public interest....
 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:






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A donor in general is a person that donate
Donation

A donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for Charitable organization purposes and/or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, including cash, Service , new or used goods including but not limited to clothing, toys, food, vehicles, it also may consist of emergency, relief or humanitarian aid items, dev...
s something voluntarily. Usually used to represent a form of pure altruism
Altruism

Altruism is the deliberate pursuit of the interests or welfare of others or the public interest....
 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
    Blood donation

    A blood donation is when a healthy person free will has blood drawn. The blood is used for blood transfusion or made into medications by a process called fractionation#Plasma protein fractionation....
  • Electron donor
    Electron donor

    An electron donor is a chemical entity that donates electrons to another compound. It is a reducing agent that, by virtue of its donating electrons, is itself oxidized in the process....
     — (by analogy) a technical term in chemistry and semiconductor
    Semiconductor

    A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
     physics (see also the next entry)
  • Acceptor (semiconductors)
    Acceptor (semiconductors)

    In semiconductors physics the term acceptor is used to generically indicate a Semiconductors#Dopants atom that added to a semiconductor can form p-type regions....
  • Organ donor
    Organ donation

    Organ donation is the removal of the Biological tissue of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of Organ transplant....
  • Sperm donor
    Sperm donation

    Sperm donation is the name of the provision by a man, known as a sperm donor, of his semen with the intention that it be used to achieve a pregnancy and produce a baby in a woman who is not the man's sexual partner and with whom the man does not have sexual intercourse....
  • Charitable donor
    Charitable organization

    The definition of charitable organization, and of charity, varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates....
  • Egg Donor


In literature:

  • Donor (fairy tale)
    Donor (fairy tale)

    In fairy tales, a donor is a character that tests the hero and provides magical assistances to the hero while he succeeds.The fairy godmother is a well-known form of this character....
     is a stock character of fairy tales