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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
addressee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Generalising over speech events, he abstracts the roles addressor and addressee.
▪ He would be immutable in his relation with the addressee if she/he did not change.
▪ Knowledge of his addressee constrains the analyst's expectations even further.
▪ The addressee is Titius, heir to a share of the testator's estate.
▪ The speaker is conscious of the addressee, and the addressee is conscious of the speaker.
▪ There may also be occasions when you need to have a copy of the signature of the addressee.
▪ They show disapproval of the addressee's views and may make the addressee feel bad about him/herself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Addressee

Addressee \Ad`dress*ee"\, n. One to whom anything is addressed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
addressee

1810; see address (v.) + -ee.

Wiktionary
addressee

n. The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

WordNet
addressee

n. one to whom something is addressed

Usage examples of "addressee".

Also, their Trident base in the state of Washington was included almost fifty percent more as an information addressee than in the preceding six months.

No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.

A half-second burst transmission at best No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.

Sometimes personal messages were forwarded in multiple copies, by regular interstellar couriers, the service sometimes duplicating and reduplicating the message without reading it, and sending copies on to different places, as often happened when the exact location of the addressee was unknown.

It had the return address of a hospital, but there was no addressee, no stamp, no postmark.

The yeoman keyed up the proper addressee and transmitted the message by dedicated landline to COMSUBLANT Operations, half a mile away.

He knows me well enough to know that I would not deliver them to the addressees, even if I knew who they were.

I dare say if those letters had ever reached their addressees, some of them would have been every bit as astonished as Lubov was and just about as likely to welcome their assignments.

So with the minimum of delay and an admirable dedication to duty he passed it to Minister Teruon who turned it over to First Minister Ganne who with equal alacrity handed it personally to the addressee, the Great Lord Markhamwit, and found an excuse to get out of the room.

FLASH priority, addressee USS Allentown, currently orbiting in the VACAPES OPAREA.

One large file of correspondence with Augsburg and Zurich on College of Arms writing-paper and the writing-paper of the addressees.

The systems were designed to allow single arrays to share data between distant recipients by rotating their downlink channels through more than one addressee.

Jan slammed down the ace of hearts and was absolutely unwilling and unable to understand, the truth is he had never fully understood, he had never been anything but a blue-eyed boy, smelling of cologne and incapable of understanding certain things, and so he simply could not understand why Kobyella suddenly dropped all his cards, tugged at the laundry basket with the letters in it and the dead man on top of the letters, until first the dead man, then a layer of letters, and finally the whole excellently plaited basket toppled over, sending us a wave of letters as though we were the addressees, as though the thing for us to do now was to put aside our playing cards and take to reading our correspondence or collecting stamps.

He waited for acknowledgment and got it, acknowledgment meaning only that the stat had been started across the parsecs toward the addressee.

Yet its designers had allowed for the remote possibility that it might not be received by its intended addressees.