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benefactee

benefactee noun: synonym of beneficiary.

Noun

benefactee (plural benefactees)

  1. Synonym of beneficiary.
    • To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
    Synonyms:
    beneficiary

Synonyms of benefactee

Forms of benefactee

pluralbenefactees

Origin of benefactee

From benefact + -ee.

Questions about benefactee

What does benefactee mean?
Benefactee means synonym of beneficiary.
What part of speech is benefactee?
Benefactee is a noun.
What is the plural of benefactee?
The plural of benefactee is benefactees.

Words near benefactee in the dictionary

  1. Benedictuses
  2. benedight
  3. Benedikt syndrome
  4. benefact
  5. benefacted
  6. benefactee
  7. benefactees
  8. benefacting
  9. benefaction
  10. benefactions
  11. benefactive

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