Grantee definition

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(law) A person to whom a grant is made.
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A person or organization that is given a grant.
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The recipient of a grant.
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The person to whom something is granted.
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grantee
Plural:
grantees

Grantee Sentence Examples

  • Military service and the paying of the feudal taxesaids, reliefs, &care incidents of the bargain between the crown and the grantee to whom land has been given.

  • In its modern usage it is practically confined to the money endowment given to the younger children of reigning or mediatized houses in Germany and Austria, which reverts to the state or to the head of the family on the extinction of the line of the original grantee.

  • When the interests of colonization required it, free gifts of land might be made; in which case the grantee must himself exploit his concession.

  • The competition for appointments was naturally very keen; Couto mentions the case of one grantee who received the reversion of a post to which 30 applicants had a prior claim.'

  • But Edward the Black Prince was the original grantee of the principality as well as of the dukedom, under p p y the special limitations which have continued in force to the present day.

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