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legatee

[leg-uh-tee] / ˌlɛg əˈti /




NOUN
recipient
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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2022

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?

From The New Yorker Sep. 27, 2019

Douglass, says Sandefur, was not a conservative but a legatee of “the classical liberalism of the American founding.”

From Washington Post Jan. 31, 2018

The 43 volumes found in Williams's flat on the day he died now belong to his friend and legatee Paul Richardson.

From The Guardian Oct. 9, 2010

Resid′uary-clause, that part of a will which disposes of whatever may be left after satisfying the other provisions of the will; Resid′uary-legatēē′, the legatee to whom is bequeathed the residuum.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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