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donee

[doh-nee] / doʊˈni /


NOUN
recipient
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Electoral Commission rules say any member of a registered political party could be a "regulated donee" and therefore subject to its rules about declarations.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

Butler’s emails to Leo are relentlessly obsequious, an unsurprising dynamic between a donor and donee.

From Slate ● May 2, 2018

A related example involves giving $100 to a participant and asking him to share it with another member of the group; the catch being that, if the donee rejects the deal, neither person gets anything.

From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2012

If the donor is too mean, the donee is happy to punish him by rejecting the ideal outright.

From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2012

Nor does the failure of the donee to reciprocate the donor's generosity or indirectly reward him, create any right or claim on the donor's part to a return from the donee.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles


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