单词 | investee |
释义 | investeen. 1. Originally Law: a person who is granted tenure of a property or fief (cf. investiture n. 3b) (now historical). Now also gen.: a person who is invested with a dignity, honour, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > definitely assigned > one who has patentee1442 investee1610 patenter1641 vesteea1859 society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > one upon whom property is settled investee1610 vesteea1859 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. vi. 77 Fee-Farme is a Fee, and importeth a perpetuity to the Inuestee and his heires. 1715 tr. C. Freschot Compl. Hist. Treaty Utrecht II. ii. 124 The Collaterals..do not derive their Right of resuming the Fief from the last Possessor, but from the last Investee. 1842 J. Riddell Inq. Law & Pract. Sc. Peerages II. vii. 686 The dignity, immediately taken thereafter by the noble investee, was only descendible to heirs-male. 1998 V. Powell Departure Platform vii. 75 After watching Anthony's investiture [as CBE] by Queen Elizabeth II, I suddenly spotted Rose Macaulay..supporting an investee, if that is the word, in nurse's uniform. 2002 R. B. Palmer in tr. Guillaume de Machaut La Prise d'Alixandre 6 He may..be considered, as count of Evreux and the investee of other important properties,..one of the great feudal vassals of the kingdom. 2. A person who or company, enterprise, etc., which is the recipient of financial investment. ΚΠ 1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 11/2 A manufacturing tradesman..wishes..a few thousand pounds for a limited period... Address with full name..to ‘Investee’, [etc.]. 1892 C. B. Phipson Redempt. Labour II. viii. xix. 757 The position..of the investee, as he may be called, in respect to the dividends he pays. 1920 Sat. Evening Post 19 June 13/2 He..conceived the idea of her money as an investment proposition, with himself as the investee. 1986 Canad. Tax Jrnl. Sept. 1186 Where the investee is not wholly owned or does not have a common parent with the investor, the foregoing comments do not necessarily apply. 2015 K. A. Allman & X. E. de Nogales Impact Investm. v. 199 Investees should be able to provide basic representations and warranties about themselves and the company that they have created. Compounds Appositive (in sense 2), as investee company, investee country, etc. ΚΠ 1916 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 68 8 The country in which the foreign investments are being made—we need an expression ‘investee country’—carries on its regular import and export. 1960 Times of India 17 Aug. 7/2 The investment in rights shares does not normally mean acquisition of a greater degree of control over the ‘investee’ company. 1993 Managem. Sci. 39 1410/1 Investors..delegate the task of monitoring the investee firm to the manager of the fund. 2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 10/2 It had discovered possible financial irregularities at one of its investee companies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610 |
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