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EE

-ee

a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb ( addressee; employee; grantee ); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb ( escapee; returnee; standee ) or, less frequently, a transitive verb ( attendee ) or another part of speech ( absentee; refugee ).

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-ee

indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er )
lessee
grantee
assignee
indicating a person in a specified state or condition
absentee
employee
indicating a diminutive form of something
bootee

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Origin of EE¹

< French -é, (masculine), -é�� (feminine), past participle endings < Latin -ātus, -āta -ate ¹

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Origin of EE¹

via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate ¹

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