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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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EE
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-ee
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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
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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
bootee
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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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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
Scientists use the EE correlation to estimate the Universe's "optical depth," an important quantity for studying cosmic reionization.
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
Recently it lost another 1,200 jobs in the space of 18 months as EE, IBM, Amazon and plastics firm Berry's either closed or shifted their operations elsewhere.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
The speeds are plotted as abscissae, and the electrical work absorbed in watts divided by 746 as ordinates; then with a series-wound motor we obtain the curve, EE.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 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
I think e.e. cummings said you can understand the poem without knowing what it means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
In the 1980s, k.d. lang emerged as the e.e. cummings of cowpunk.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
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
That was, until writer and Village resident Margot Gayle rallied her neighbors—who included the critic Lewis Mumford and the poet e.e. cummings—to save the building, first raising funds to get its clock fixed.
From Time ● Aug. 10, 2016
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
When an enslaved man named Charlie died after working in Mobile, Ala., a claimant, E.E.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2020
The church, beautifully situated on the hill, is E.E.
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
Among other insights, Lieberson ascribed the popularity of certain names to fluctuating subfads for “name sounds”—the J name beginning, the n or ee endings, the hard k inside of the name, etc.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
“I think,” said the gander, “it’s tee double ee double rr double rr double eye double ff double eye double see see see see see.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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