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Concierge vs. Reception — What's the Difference?

Concierge vs. Reception — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Concierge and Reception

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Concierge

A concierge (French pronunciation: ​[kɔ̃sjɛʁʒ]) is an employee of a multi-tenant building, such as a hotel or apartment building, who receives guests. The concept has been applied more generally to other hospitality settings and to personal concierges who manage the errands of private clients.

Reception

The action or process of receiving something sent, given, or inflicted
Sensation is not the passive reception of stimuli

Concierge

A staff member of a hotel or apartment complex who assists guests or residents, as by handling the storage of luggage, taking and delivering messages, and making reservations for tours.

Reception

A formal social occasion held to welcome someone or to celebrate an event
A wedding reception

Concierge

A person, especially in France, who lives in an apartment house, attends the entrance, and serves as a janitor.
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Reception

The process of receiving broadcast signals
A microchip that will allow parents to block reception of violent programmes

Concierge

One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.

Reception

The area in a hotel or organization where guests and visitors are greeted and dealt with
Wait for me downstairs in reception
The reception desk

Concierge

(British) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.

Reception

The first class in an infant or primary school
My son is in reception
The reception class

Concierge

(obsolete) conciergerie.

Reception

An act of catching a pass
His 49 receptions included six touchdowns

Concierge

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

Reception

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

Concierge

A French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter

Reception

(Football) The act or an instance of catching a forward pass.

Reception

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance
A friendly reception.

Reception

A social function, especially one intended to provide a welcome or greeting
A wedding reception.

Reception

Mental approval or acceptance
The reception of a new theory.

Reception

Conversion of transmitted electromagnetic signals into perceptible forms, such as sound or light, by means of antennas and electronic equipment.

Reception

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

Reception

The act of receiving.

Reception

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

Reception

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

Reception

A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.

Reception

The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

Reception

The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

Reception

(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

Reception

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

Reception

(linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

Reception

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

Reception

The state of being received.

Reception

The act or manner of receiving, especially of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
What reception a poem may find.

Reception

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries have fallen into as extravagant opinions as even common reception countenanced.

Reception

A retaking; a recovery.

Reception

The manner in which something is greeted;
She did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors

Reception

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Reception

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

Reception

The act of receiving

Reception

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;
The tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line

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