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EE
1- a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
-ee
2- 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.
3abbreviation for
- errors excepted.
E.E.
4abbreviation for
- Early English.
- electrical engineer.
- electrical engineering.
EE
1abbreviation for
- Early English
- electrical engineer(ing)
- (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
-ee
2suffix forming nouns
- 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
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4the internet domain name for
- Estonia
e.e.
5abbreviation for
- errors excepted
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Origin of EE1
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Example Sentences
Again, it was the EE [Executive Elders] who made those decisions.
Her unique phrasing renders the word “Friday” as “fry-ee-day.”
The tea partiers are lining up like rubes at the “Direct from Gay Par-ee!”
"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.
Papa, can't I go to the zoologerical rooms to see the camomile fight the rhy-no-sir-ee-hoss?
I seed two er th'ee men prowlin' roun' in de bushes ez I come 'long.
And again: 'I tell 'ee the King and Queen could not bear the presence of he.
Wk-mi-ser, Corn; a warrior of distinction, of the Ne-caw-ee-gee band.
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