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benefactee en · NOUN

Etymology

From benefact + -ee.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of beneficiary.
    • To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee. 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021

Forms

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Synonyms

beneficiary