-ee

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-ee, suffix. 

1. -ee is attached to verbs that take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the person who is the object of the action of the verb'':
   address + -ee → addressee (= the person whom someone else addresses).
2. -ee is attached to verbs that do not take an object to form nouns with the meaning "the one doing or performing the act of the verb'':
   escape + -ee → escapee (= one performing the act of escaping).
3. -ee is attached to other words to form nouns with the meaning "the one who is or does'':
   absent + -ee → absentee (= one who is absent).

E.E., an abbreviation of:

1. electrical engineer.
2. electrical engineering.

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-ee, 

1. a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee;
   employee;
   grantee);
   recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee;
   returnee;
   standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee;
   refugee).

• Latin -ātus, -āta -ate¹
• French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings

EE, 

1. Clothing a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

E.E., 

1. Architecture Early English.
2. electrical engineer.
3. electrical engineering.

e.e., 

1. errors excepted.

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-ee suffix:forming_nouns

1. indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er): assignee, grantee, lessee
2. indicating a person in a specified state or condition: absentee, employee
3. indicating a diminutive form of something: bootee

Etymology: via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate¹