offereen.
/ˌɒfəˈriː/, U.S. /ˌɔfəˈri/, /ˌɑfəˈri/ A person to whom something is or has been offered; (Law) a person to whom another has expressed willingness to enter into a mutually binding contract.
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the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > [noun] > one to whom something is offered
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1882 Scottish Law Reporter 20 7/1 The offeree was allowed..some days to decide whether he would accept the offer.
1895 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 157 141 In contracts of this character..the acceptance of the offer is made by the performance by the offeree of the consideration.
1915 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 26 98 An offeree may find his power of acceptance cut off by revocation.
1952 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 1092 Provided the offer is not one which for some reason the offeree is entitled to refuse.
1967 Economist 20 May 754/1 The now-familiar rise in the price of an offeree company's shares before the announcement of a bid.
1972 Real Estate Rev. Winter 56/2 The statutes define such offerings in terms of the number of buyers, or the number of offerees, or the total number of stockholders or security holders after completion of the offering, or combinations thereof.
1994 Judicature Mar. 239/2 To defray certain categories of cost..that the offeree may incur in return for the offeree's waiver of a tort claim.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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