EE

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a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

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

< French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings < Latin -ātus, -āta -ate¹

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Examples from the Web for ee

Contemporary Examples

Again, it was the EE [Executive Elders] who made those decisions.
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Warren Throckmorton
September 14, 2014

Historical Examples

They'm to take 'ee all, dead or livin', sarch by night or day.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880
Various
Mr. Hubert, now do 'ee take care; you and him's both so rash.
The Mob (Third Series Plays)
John Galsworthy
Don't 'ee go on like that, Nance; I'll 'ave to take you 'ome.
The Mob (Third Series Plays)
John Galsworthy
I should like to know what Mr. Filmer'd say if ever he knew I'd let ee do that.'
Despair's Last Journey
David Christie Murray
Look 'ee here—I've a knife to your ribs, and you can't use your gun.
Two Sides of the Face
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British Dictionary definitions for ee

ee¹

noun plural een (iːn)

a Scot word for eye 1

ee²

the internet domain name for

Estonia

EE

abbreviation for

Early English
electrical engineer(ing)
(in New Zealand) ewe equivalent

e.e.

abbreviation for

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-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

via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1

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Word Origin and History for ee

-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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Examples from the Web for ee

Contemporary Examples

Again, it was the EE [Executive Elders] who made those decisions.

Historical Examples

They'm to take 'ee all, dead or livin', sarch by night or day.

Mr. Hubert, now do 'ee take care; you and him's both so rash.

Don't 'ee go on like that, Nance; I'll 'ave to take you 'ome.

I should like to know what Mr. Filmer'd say if ever he knew I'd let ee do that.'

Look 'ee here—I've a knife to your ribs, and you can't use your gun.

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Word Origin and History for ee

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Origin of -ee

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