leavee
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
leavee (plural leavees)
- The person in a relationship who is left by the other.
- 2009, Lisa Rene Reynolds, Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce, page 125:
- The leavee is the one who may not have been quite ready to give up on the relationship and so may feel still committed in some way to the marriage.