a person who is selected, esp for military service
selectee in American English
(səˌlɛkˈti)
US
noun
a person inducted into the armed forces under selective service
selectee in American English
(sɪlekˈti)
noun
one selected by draft for service in one of the armed forces
Word origin
[1935–40, Amer.; select + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Arts and Crafts Movement, aeroembolism, bingo, blitz, hard core-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)