benefactee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

benefact +‎ -ee

Noun[edit]

benefactee (plural benefactees)

  1. Synonym of beneficiary
    • 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
      To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.