EE
a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
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-eea 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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e.e.
e.e.abbreviationerrors excepted.
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E.E.
E.E.abbreviationEarly English.
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E.E.
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electrical engineer.
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electrical engineering.
EE
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Early English
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electrical engineer(ing)
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(in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
-ee
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suffix
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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
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indicating a person in a specified state or condition
absentee
employee
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indicating a diminutive form of something
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ee
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e.e.
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Usage
What does -ard mean? The suffix -ee is used to denote nouns related to the object or beneficiary of an act or the performer of an act. It is often used in everyday and technical terms. The form -ee comes from the French suffixes -é (masculine) and ée (feminine), which are used to designate past participles, much like how -ed is used in English. The suffixes -é and ée come from Latin -ātus (masculine) and -āta (feminine), of the same meaning.
Etymology
Origin of -ee
< French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings < Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1
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Paresh Kharya, VP of product at Taalas, told EE Times that he expects customers to stay with a model for a year or more.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Taalas makes the case that it has a lower cost of ownership than a GPU on a four-year refresh cycle, even if the Taalas chips have to be replaced every year, according to EE Times.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The team also discovered that when this phase uncertainty is considered, cosmic birefringence influences another signal in the cosmic microwave background known as the EE correlation.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
The Hull actor is also one of five actors up for the EE Bafta Rising Star prize.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
The covering plate MK has a slot above the axis EE allowing a rod LL′ to be moved by aid of a button L, carrying the wheel D with it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
In spoken English the ending -ew, -ue, of French origin, has been often changed to -ee, -ey.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
Humans have, conveniently, learned to translate whale songs, and the humpback speaks e.e. cummings-esque phrases in the voice of Meryl Streep.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
In publishing, new editions of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet and Robert Frost’s New Hampshire are already on the way, and work from Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, e.e. cummings, and P.G.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2018
Poetic phrases, borrowed from e.e. cummings and Gertrude Stein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2015
On the other end of the spectrum, e.e. cummings’ “Next to of course god america i” is a parody of typical campaign rhetoric, mashing together various patriotic cliches.
From Time ● Apr. 7, 2015
In the decades that followed, in his complementary positions as book critic and editor, Cowley worked tirelessly to legitimize the innovative writing of Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Hart Crane, E.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
News of Dickies’ move shook some people in Fort Worth, where the company was co-founded in 1922 by E.E.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The state Supreme Court convened an emergency hearing Monday to consider special prosecutor E.E.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Grids are central to the art of E.E.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin is mostly E.E. and is conspicuous for its spire-topped western tower, 176 feet high, being equal to the length of the church.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
Still, every morning, he would shuffle to his family's tea shop and fry up ee kyar kwe, which are doughsticks.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
Sprinkled with the spiritual dust of ee cummings, Rachel Zucker and Aquaman, Stein’s odes to motherhood go toe-to-toe with Dad’s neurotic rants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
Florida must turn to backup quarterback Austin Appleby for Saturday’s game after usual starter Luke Del Rio injured his left kn ee last week in a 32-0 victory over North Texas.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2016
In one study, he measured the temperature of subjects’ foreheads while they made different vowel sounds, ee and ü, for which their lips had to be in different postures.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2016
“But how can a pore urchin dump un on ter noase? When ee ha’nt got nothing to dump with, nor way to hold ’un?
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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