Word for people or group(s) that will receive message [closed]
What is a single word that means 'the people or group(s) that will receive the message'?
Update:
This will be used in my code. It will be part of the name of a class that will display who will receive the message that is being composed.
A good one I thought of is Recipients. To me this word makes me think of someone who received an award. But it might fit my requirements.
The broadest sense of audience covers this.
audience n. ...
- the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public.
[Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd]
You can use the noun 'addressees', which refers to the people to whom the message is addressed.
The addressee would be the person to whom the message was addressed. ie: the person or persons intended to receive it.
The recipient is the person who actually did receive it.
In an ideal world these two terms would refer to the same person, of course, but there are potential cases where they might not. Up to the OP whether this distinction is important or not.
How about: prospect, target or focus... or more clinical: demographics, as the demographics of a marketing campaign, the (type of) people or culture you are trying to reach. The problem with some of these terms is that they don't easily fit in conversations with those people on the receiving end.