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Definition: Assignee |
AssigneeNoun1. (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | The person or institution to whom an agreement, contract, or interest in real property is transferred. (references) |
Insurance | Any person to whom some right or property has been assigned or transferred. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | One who obtains a concession. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A person to whom a right is assigned. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receiving | Recipient, accipient; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary; grantee, feoffee, donee, releasee, relessee, lessee; receiver. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Assignee |
| English words defined with "assignee": -ee ♦ unclaimed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "assignee": Letter Of Assignment. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Cote d'Ivoire | France made its initial contact with Cote d'Ivoire in 1637, when missionaries landed at Assignee near the Gold Coast (now Ghana) border. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Alternatively, such a letter of credit is supported by a related obligation specifically stating the deferred payment terms under which the foreign bank is obligated to make payments to the exporter, or the exporter's assignee, in U.S. dollars as such payments become due. (references) | |
New Zealand | The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("Paris Union"), to which New Zealand is a party, provides that a person (or his/her personal representative or assignee) who has filed an application for a patent in one Paris Union country has the right, within 12 months from the date of the first application in the Paris Union country, to claim priority for a subsequent application in respect of the same invention in any other Paris Union country. (references) | |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | To obtain a national patent in Belgium, the inventor or his/her assignee must file a request with the Office of Industrial Property in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Assignee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assignee" is used about 149 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 149 | 25,810 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "assignee": assignee-endorsee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
assignee | 20 |
assignee assignment assignor lease | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "assignee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përfitues (carpetbagger, scrounger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المعين للعمل, المعهود إليه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | синдик (syndic), пълномощник (agent, attorney, commissary, deputy, employer, factor, mandatary, mandatory, procurator, proxy, vicegerent), правоприемник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | assignatar (assign, transferee), koncessionshaver (franchisee, grantee), den til hvem overdragelse sker (transferee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rechtverkrijger (assign), rechtverkrijgende (assign, franchisee, grantee), overnemer van een zaak of een recht (transferee), concessionaris (franchisee, grantee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | oikeudenomistaja (eligible person, party entitled, rightful claimant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cessionnaire (assignée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bevollmächtigter (attorney, attorney in fact, authorizer, commissioner, plenipotentiary), Abtretungsempfänger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εντολοδόχοσ (proxy, representative), διάδοχος δικαιωμάτων και υποχρεώσεων (assign), διάδοχος (assign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מח". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | engedményes (assign, concessionaire, concessioner, concessionnaire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avente causa (assign, eligible person, party entitled, rightful claimant), mandatario (agent, mandatory, proxy, representative), concessionario (agent, concessionaire, concessionary), cessionario (cessionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양수인 (Cessionary, transferee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynnydee (commissary, locum tenens, procurator, proxy, substitute), enmyssagh (addressee, assign, definable, nominee, terminological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assigneeay administrador (comptroller, conservator, controller, director, dispenser, factor, fallow deer, hind, manager, manciple, officer, overseer, ruler, steward, trustee, warden), titular de direito (assign, claimant, eligible person, interested party, party entitled, person entitled, rightful claimant), síndico (apartment manager, syndic), procurador (agent, attorney, deputy, proctor, procurator, proxy, solicitor), concessionário (concessionaire, concessioner, lessee), cessionário (assign), beneficiário (allottee, recipient). (various references) agent (agency, agent, broker, clerk, courier, factor, go between, means, medium, minister), reprezentant (agent, ambassador, attorney, deputy, envoy, exponent, official, rep, representative, shop steward, spokesman), cesionar (grantee, releasee). (various references) правопреемник (assign). (various references) zastupnik (agent, defender, locum tenens, mandatary, pleader, proxy, representative, spokesman), onaj na koga se prenosi. (various references) apoderado (agent, attorney, attorney in fact, procurator, proxy, representative). (various references) vekil (administrator, alternate, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), devralan kimse (assign). (various references) уповноважений (authorized, commissary, mandatory, proxy, syndic), агент (agent, broker, doer, emissary, envoy, factor), представник (agent, delegate, deputy, exponent, representative, secondary, speaker, spokesman), правонаступник (assign). (various references) người được uỷ nhiệm (mandatary, subdelegate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "assignee": assignees. (additional references) | |
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"Assignee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assigne, assignen, assignine, Esslingen, Lassaigne, Tassigny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: agenesis. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: aegises, genesis, seeings, senegas, signees. | |
-2 letters: agenes, anises, assign, easies, easing, egises, genies, gneiss, sanies, sansei, seeing, seines, senega, sieges, signee, singes. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agene, anise, eases, gains, gases, genes, genie, sages, sains, sanes, sasin, segni, seine, seise, sengi, sensa, sense, siege, signs, sines, singe, sings, snags. | |
-4 letters: agee, ages, agin, ains, anes, anis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: agenesias, assignees, ensilages, envisages, seesawing. | |
+2 letters: anagenesis, anglesites, caginesses, designates, diageneses, diagenesis, disengages, espionages, gaminesses, garnishees, gesneriads, giantesses, greasiness, magnesites, magnetises, pangenesis, reassigned, stingarees, vernissage. | |
+3 letters: abiogeneses, abiogenesis, angelfishes, angrinesses, bagginesses, detasseling, ensanguines, evangelisms, evangelists, gassinesses, gaudinesses, gawkinesses, generalises, generalists, gracileness, grapinesses, manginesses, meaningless, metagenesis, mutagenesis, paragenesis, preassigned, ranginesses, reasserting, reassessing, reseasoning, seignorages, sergeancies, sergeanties, staginesses, subagencies, vernissages, wineglasses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 73 69 67 6E 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... ... .. --. -. . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s s i g n e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0073 0069 0067 006E 0065 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3585857573807171 |
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