benefactee

English

Etymology

benefact +‎ -ee

Noun

benefactee (plural benefactees)

1. Synonym of beneficiary
   • 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021

     To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.