recommendeen.
/ˌrɛkəˌmɛnˈdiː/, U.S. /ˌrɛkəˌmɛnˈdi/ A person who is recommended by another.
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1810 A. Grant Let. 13 Apr. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) I. 250 I have provided for your recommendee, Mr. Grant, by appointing him Paymaster and Commissary to the expedition now embarking for the Mauritius.
1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 594/1 A great compliment and honour both to the recommender and the recommendee.
1922 Music Q. 8 291 Schlesinger..had exerted all his most convincing eloquence in order to set his recommendee in the best possible light.
1989 S. B. Knouse in R. A. Giacalone & P. Rosenfeld Impression Managem. in Organization xvii. 287 The letter writer must be careful not to ‘oversell’ recommendees by making them sound too good to be true.
2010 T'oung Pao 96 385 They [sc. the letters of recommendation] begin with the name of the recommendee.., then proceed to characterize the recommendee's abilities and relevant qualifications.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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