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recipient vs assignee

assignee vs recipient

recipient and assignee both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
recipient Yes No No No
assignee Yes No No No
As nouns, assignee is a hyponym of recipient; that is, assignee is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than recipient:
  • recipient: a person who receives something
  • assignee: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
Other hyponyms of recipient include addressee, alienee, grantee, annuitant, beneficiary, donee, borrower, conferee, consignee, dependant, dependent, grantee, heir, heritor, inheritor, honoree, host, mandatary, mandatory, payee, protege, sendee, transferee, warrantee.
recipient (noun) assignee (noun)
the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
a person who receives something
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