EE
a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
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Other definitions for -ee (2 of 4)
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).
Origin of -ee
2Other definitions for e.e. (3 of 4)
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Other definitions for E.E. (4 of 4)
Early English.
electrical engineer.
electrical engineering.
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How to use EE in a sentence
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.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsPapa, can't I go to the zoologerical rooms to see the camomile fight the rhy-no-sir-EE-hoss?
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | Various
I seed two er th'EE men prowlin' roun' in de bushes ez I come 'long.
A Little Union Scout | Joel Chandler HarrisAnd again: 'I tell 'EE the King and Queen could not bear the presence of he.
Art in England | Dutton CookWk-mi-ser, Corn; a warrior of distinction, of the Ne-caw-EE-gee band.
British Dictionary definitions for ee (1 of 5)
/ (iː) /
British Dictionary definitions for ee (2 of 5)
Estonia
British Dictionary definitions for EE (3 of 5)
Early English
electrical engineer(ing)
(in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
British Dictionary definitions for -ee (4 of 5)
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
indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee; employee
indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee
Origin of -ee
4British Dictionary definitions for e.e. (5 of 5)
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