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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 -ee /ˈi, ˌi, i/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 -ee  A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 EE
      n : the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of
          electricity and the equipment for power generation and
          distribution and the control of machines and
          communication [syn: electrical engineering]