a person entitled to share in the estate of an intestate
distributee in American English
(dɪˌstrɪbjuˈti)
US
noun
Law
one of those to whom an intestate's property is to be apportioned
distributee in American English
(dɪˌstrɪbjuˈti)
noun
1. Law
a person who shares in a decedent estate
2.
a person to whom something is distributed
Word origin
[1865–70, Amer.; distribute + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black belt, dunk, maverick, steamroller, tick-tack-toe-ee is a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is theobject or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); more recent formations also mark the performer of an act, with the base being anintransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee)