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-ee1 definition

-ee (ē)

  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

Etymology: < Anglo-Fr & OFr -é, orig. masc. ending of pp. of verbs in -er < L -atus: see -ate

-ee2 definition

-ee (ē)

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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