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benefactees

benefactees is the plural of benefactee.

Meaning of benefactee

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

Questions about benefactees

What is benefactees the plural of?
Benefactees is the plural of benefactee.

Words near benefactees in the dictionary

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

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