单词 | departee |
释义 | departee in British English (ˌdɪpɑːˈtiː) noun a person who departs or has departed departee in American English (ˌdipɑrˈti) noun one who has departed, as from a place, a position, or a country departee in American English (dɪpɑːrˈti, ˌdi-) noun a person who leaves an area, country, etc. Word origin [1945–50; depart + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ergative, fail-safe, individual medley, poison pill, taxi squad-ee is a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is theobject or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); more recent formations also mark the performer of an act, with the base being anintransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee) |
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