assignee vs recipient

assignee and recipient both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assignee	Yes	No	No	No
recipient	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recipient is a hypernym of assignee; that is, recipient is a word with a broader meaning than assignee:

assignee: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
recipient: a person who receives something

Other hypernyms of assignee include receiver, party.

assignee (noun)	recipient (noun)
(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)	the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
	a person who receives something