offeree
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of offeree
First recorded in 1845–50; offer ( def. ) + -ee ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Takeover Panel has stated that these types of protections may “deter competing offerors from making an offer, thereby denying offeree company shareholders the possibility of deciding on the merits of a competing offer.”
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2011
The Road shows were rummage sales of stuff out of vaudeville, burlesque�marvelously shoddy masterpieces offeree and fantasy, stitched together with cliches and ad libs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accordingly, it issued a warning that unmistakably implied the use offeree.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I put myself through a crash course in the exotic hardware, the numerology offeree levels and the foreign language of arms-control acronyms," he explains.
From Time Magazine Archive
The existence of a written contract depends on the fact that the offerer and offeree have interchanged their written expressions, not on the continued existence of those expressions.
From The Path of the Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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