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addressee

/ədrɛˈsi/
/ədrɛˈsi/
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Other forms: addressees

The person who receives a letter in the mail is an addressee. If you're mailing a birthday gift, be sure to write the addressee's name and address clearly on the package!

Whenever you send something to a particular address, you indicate an addressee. If you send your best friend a postcard from Hawaii, you'll include her name, street number, city, state and zip code, making her the addressee. Adding -ee to the end of a word is one way to indicate the recipient of an action; along with addressee, words like appointee and employee also use this suffix.

Definitions of addressee
  1. noun
    one to whom something is addressed
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    type of:
    receiver, recipient
    a person who receives something
  2. noun
    one to whom something is said
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