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
"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
Accordingly, it issued a warning that unmistakably implied the use offeree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take for instance the case of an offer, which a reasonable man would understand in a given way, accepted by the offeree in that understanding when the offerer really meant something else.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
If the offeree should use a different agency, the telegraph for instance, to convey his acceptance, it would not be binding until the offerer had received and accepted it.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
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