a person who is transferred or removed, as from one place to another
2. Law
a person to whom a transfer is made, as of property
Word origin
[1730–40; transfer + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1730–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bronze, escapement, malaria, swipe, thesaurus-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)
Examples of 'transferee' in a sentence
transferee
The effect of the transfer was to align the group with the applicants' new employment with the transferee.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They contended that time ran against their claims from the end of their employment with the transferee.