Assignee

  

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Assignee

Definition: Assignee

Assignee

Noun

1. (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.
 


Specialty Definition: Assignee

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms within Context: Assignee

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Assignee

English words defined with "assignee": -eeunclaimed. (references)
Specialty definitions using "assignee": Letter Of Assignment. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Assignee

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Assignee

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%14925,810

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Assignee

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "assignee": assignee-endorsee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Assignee

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

assignee

20

assignee assignment assignor lease

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Assignee

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

правопреемник (assign). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zastupnik (agent, defender, locum tenens, mandatary, pleader, proxy, representative, spokesman), onaj na koga se prenosi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apoderado (agent, attorney, attorney in fact, procurator, proxy, representative). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người được uỷ nhiệm (mandatary, subdelegate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Assignee

Derivations

Words beginning with "assignee": assignees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Assignee

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Assignee


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 73 73 69 67 6E 65 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    ...    ..    --.    -.    .    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#103 &#110 &#101 &#101

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3585857573807171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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