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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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E.E.
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Early English.
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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
bootee
ee
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/ iː /
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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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“Measure EE seeks to make the ballot box powers equal to either overturn or to adopt legislation,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“My big problem with EE is that it’s a ruse of reform,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He found that more than one in four data tests across EE, O2, Three and Vodafone failed outright.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
T, Sheet coagulation tank; C, cylinder for reception and dilution of latex; GG, gutter; PP, raised platform on verandah; SS, steps leading to platform; W, dwarf wall; EE, expanded metal partition; OO, open.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
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
The two were never friends, having shared but one conversation about a poem by e.e. cummings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
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
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” may seem like the most epic of these epics, but before him writers such as E.E.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
The department also pointed to the ruling in a lawsuit filed by E.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2021
It is now an ecclesiastical district, formed in 1889; the church, an E.E. brick structure, dates from 1838; the porches were added in 1882.
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
“Ee wor a gennelman, ee wor. Ee hadden no proper neame like, not like you may remember, but ee wor a gennelman, that ee wor, and fed un out a porcelain.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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