awardee
[ uh-wawr-dee, uh-wawr-dee ]
/ ə wɔrˈdi, əˈwɔr di /
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noun
the recipient of an award.
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Example sentences from the Web for awardee
But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability.
Sadly, their families are typically the only ones left to commend, since most of the awardees are dead.
At the event one of the awardees spoke of their goals in terms of “decades and generations.”