a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory
a signee of the Declaration of Independence
Word origin
[1950–55; sign + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: allograph, bleep, hot line, point-of-sale, speech recognition-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)