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EE
1- a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
-ee
2- a 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 ).
e.e.
3abbreviation for
- errors excepted.
E.E.
4abbreviation for
- Early English.
- electrical engineer.
- electrical engineering.
EE
1abbreviation for
- Early English
- electrical engineer(ing)
- (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
e.e.
2abbreviation for
- errors excepted
-ee
3suffix forming nouns
- indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er )
lessee
grantee
assignee
- indicating a person in a specified state or condition
absentee
employee
- indicating a diminutive form of something
bootee
ee
4/ 颈藧 /
noun
- a Scot word for eye 1
ee
5the internet domain name for
- Estonia
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of EE1
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亚洲网紅露点s That Use -ee
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 鈥茅 (masculine) and 茅别 (feminine), which are used to designate past participles, much like how -ed is used in English. The suffixes 鈥茅 and 茅别 come from Latin -腻迟耻蝉 (masculine) and -腻迟补 (feminine), of the same meaning.
Examples of -ee
A common word that uses the suffix -ee is absentee, 鈥渁 person who is absent, especially from work or school.鈥
The word absent- here means 鈥渢o take or keep (oneself) away.鈥 The suffix -ee denotes the performer of an act. Absentee literally translates to 鈥渟omeone who takes or keeps oneself away.鈥
What are some words that use the combining form -ee?
What are some other forms that -ee may be commonly confused with?
Not every word that ends with the exact letters -ee, such as tree or bee, is necessarily using the suffix -ee to denote the performer of an act. Learn where the word bee comes from at our entry for the word.
Break it down!
Given the meaning of the suffix -ee, what does employee literally mean?
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