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 ).

e.e.

abbreviation for

E.E.

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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 )
assignee
lessee
grantee
indicating a person in a specified state or condition
absentee
employee
indicating a diminutive form of something
bootee

/ iː /

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e.e.

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Origin of EE¹

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

Origin of EE¹

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

The term is inspired by this line from the poet E.E. Cummings: "Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

From a look at the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the life of the American poet E.E. Cummings.

In our own practice we always place a diffusing screen of very finely-ground glass in front of the condenser at E.E.

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