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-ee

  1. the recipient of a (specified) action, grant, or benefit: appointee, selectee, mortgagee
  2. a person in a (specified) condition: absentee, employee
  3. a person or thing associated in some way with another: bargee, goatee
  4. a person that performs the (specified) action: standee

forming an old-fashioned nonstandard form of nouns of nationality ending in -ese: Chinee, Portugee

See -ee in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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