donee

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • May 2, 2018

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

From Economist • Jul. 20, 2012

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

Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rom. facies:— "Alexander Magnus ....successores ejus..... in nummis omnes cornuti quasi Jovii, honore utique manifesto, donee cornuum decus in ludibria uxoriorum vertit somnorum interpres Artimidorus."

From Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various