Definitions

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  • noun A person to whom something is sent

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  • noun the intended recipient of a message

Etymologies

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send +‎ -ee

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Examples

  • And the sendee doesn't know the answers have been given many times before.

    Archive 2007-01-15 Joe Konrath 2007

  • But that beats the sendee waiting five months for a reply.

    Archive 2007-01-15 Joe Konrath 2007

  • Whipcord lean, with a strong nose and a thick scar along his jaw earned in her sendee, he had been little more than a boy when she found him, cat-quick and already one of the finest swordsmen in her native Tarabon, and for all the years since there had never been a moment when he did less.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • “Malia! me give lil baby powder — you no sendee more for doctorman, Malia!” said the soft-voiced, gentle Chinaman who owned her.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • And each one of them could work for a definite period of time: twelve months or thirteen, depending on rank and branch of sendee.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • I told him how I had found out that all of us who had been in the streets were victims of the white man's society I told Archie what I had thought in prison about him; that his brain, which could tape-record hundreds of number combinations a day, should have been put at the sendee of mathematics or science.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • This man, bespectacled Walter zu Christian, supervized the building up and operation of a vast information-getting and spy sendee.

    England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961

  • Often we conveyed letters, the chain of communication of which was so complex that we knew neither the sender nor sendee.

    The "Pen" - Long Days in a County Penitentiary 1907

  • Often we conveyed letters, the chain of communication of which was so complex that we knew neither sender nor sendee.

    The Pen 1907

  • Often we conveyed letters, the chain of communication of which was so complex that we knew neither sender nor sendee.

    The Pen 1907

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