organ donor

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   someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation

   Broaderdonor

Questions about organ donor

What does organ donor mean?

organ donor means "someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation".

Is organ donor a common word?

organ donor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.