assignee

1. 1.

   (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

   Broaderpartyrecipient

   law

Other forms of assignee

plural

assignees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about assignee

What does assignee mean?

assignee means "(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)".

How many syllables are in assignee?

assignee has 3 syllables: as-sig-nee. The stress falls on "as".

Is assignee a common word?

assignee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.