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).
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EE
a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
E.E.
1.
Early English.
2.
electrical engineer.
3.
electrical engineering.
e.e.
errors excepted.
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| ee2 | |
| —the internet domain name for | |
| Estonia | |
| EE | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| 1. | Early English |
| 2. | electrical engineer(ing) |
| 3. | (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent |
| e.e. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| errors excepted | |
| -ee | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | 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; grantee; lessee |
| 2. | indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee; employee |
| 3. | indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee |
| [via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta | |
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Word Origin & History
-ee
in legal English (and in imitation of it), represents the Anglo-Fr. -é ending of pps. used as nouns. As these sometimes were coupled with agent nouns in -or, the two suffixes came to be used as a pair to denote the initiator and the recipient of an action.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| EE Early English |
| e.e. errors excepted |
E.E.
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