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a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
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e.e.
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E.E.
Early English.
electrical engineer.
electrical engineering.
-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).
Origin of -ee
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ee
1/ (iː) /
noun plural een (iːn)
a Scot word for eye 1
the internet domain name for
Estonia
EE
abbreviation for
Early English
electrical engineer(ing)
(in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
e.e.
abbreviation for
errors excepted
-ee
suffix 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; grantee; lessee
indicating a person in a specified state or conditionabsentee; employee
indicating a diminutive form of somethingbootee
Word Origin for -ee
via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1
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-ee
word-forming element in legal English (and in imitation of it), representing the Anglo-French -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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