-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.
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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]