claimee

English

Etymology

From claim +‎ -ee.

Noun

claimee (plural claimees)

1. A person from whom something is claimed.
   • 2020 January 27, Iskra Fileva, “What Do We Owe the Dead?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The deceased belong to death now, not to us. And it may be that we feel that it is not simply other people watching us; we are being watched by death itself. Death has come to visit, and we are all in its presence when we share a room with one of its recent claimees.