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greetee

greetee noun: one who is greeted.

Noun

greetee (plural greetees)

  1. One who is greeted.
    • Too early an enquiry results in forcing the greetee into a conversation, but waiting too long results in a verbal collision or in missing your target.1996, Richard T. Arndt, David Lee Rubin, The Fulbright Difference, 1948-1992, page 343
    • The greetee could have responded with a request for delay after part of the process (as in "oh hi, give me a minute," and then attending to another matter).2006, Jan van Kuppevelt, Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, page 64

Forms of greetee

pluralgreetees

Origin of greetee

From greet + -ee.

Questions about greetee

What does greetee mean?
Greetee means one who is greeted.
What part of speech is greetee?
Greetee is a noun.
What is the plural of greetee?
The plural of greetee is greetees.

Words near greetee in the dictionary

  1. Greesons
  2. greet
  3. greetable
  4. greete
  5. greeted
  6. greetee
  7. greetees
  8. greeter
  9. greeters
  10. greetes
  11. greetest

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