assignee

See also: assignée

English

Etymology

From Middle English assigne, from Old French assigné, equivalent to assign +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

assignee (plural assignees)

1. One to whom a thing is assigned.
2. (law) One to whom a right or property is being transferred.

   Synonym: cessionary

3. One who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent.

Derived terms

• assigneeship
• coassignee

 

Translations

one to whom a thing is assigned

• Turkish: görevlendirilen

law: one to whom rights or property is being transferred

• Arabic: وَكِيل (ar) m (wakīl)
• Dutch: cessionaris (nl) c
• French: cessionnaire (fr) m
• German: Zessionar m, Abtretungsempfänger m
• Italian: cessionario (it) m
• Polish: nabywcy, cesjonariusza
• Portuguese: cessionário (pt) m
• Russian: цессионе́р (ru) m (cessionér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цесио̀на̄р m

  Latin: cesiònār (sh) m

• Spanish: cesionario m, causahabiente m or f
• Turkish: temlik alan
• Welsh: aseinai m or f

an agent

• Arabic: وَكِيل (ar) m (wakīl)
• German: Bevollmächtigter (de) m, Bevollmächtigte (de) f
• Russian: пове́ренный (ru) m (povérennyj), дове́ренный (ru) m (dovérennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: повјерѐнӣк m, поверѐнӣк m

  Latin: povjerènīk (sh) m, poverènīk (sh) m

• Turkish: vekil (tr)

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