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treatee en · NOUN

Etymology

From treat + -ee.

Meanings

1. One who receives treatment.
   • I don't know why I do things like that except that sometimes I think that the principal difference between the treater and the treatee is that the treater is in possession of the keys, if only in a symbolic sense […] 2014, Martin Fleishman, The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, page 58:
2. One who is given a treat.
   • Is "standing treat" a sale of liquor? Certainly to the "treator," but is it a sale to the "treatee"? 1888, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes, volume 7, page 131:

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