Legatee - English meaning

noun

A person to whom a right or liability is legally transferred.

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Assignment results in the transfer from the assignor to the third-party assignee of the right to pr…

noun

A person to whom the rights to a property, etc. have been given

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The lease states that the original tenant should not be liable in the event of default by the assig…

noun

A person who has been sent by their company or organization to live and work in another place for a period of time

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Short-term assignees often do not take their family with them, especially when the place of work is…

noun

A person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy.

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Australia would be the beneficiary of a policy it did not have to underwrite.

noun

A person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of something else

Usage examples:

Her wife was the chief beneficiary of her will.

noun

A person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

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The grantee sued the grantor upon his covenant to maintain the road.

noun

A person or organization that receives a grant

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Any unused funds should be returned by the grantee at the end of the project.

noun

A person or organization that legally owns land or property

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After the transfer of his estate, his former tenant became the legal grantee.

noun

A person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

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His eldest son and heir

noun

A person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other person dies

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Heir to the guest of honour was the romanov heir to the throne of all russia., son and heir despite…

noun

Someone who now has responsibility for dealing with a problem or situation that existed or was created earlier

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Heir to the french finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to lou…

noun

A woman who is legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

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An oil heiress

noun

A woman or girl who will receive or already has received a lot of money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that person dies

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The heiress to the throne, a texan oil heiress

noun

A person who inherits something; an heir.

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We are the inheritors of these cultural traditions

noun

A person who receives money, property, or assets from someone who has died

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A survey of property inheritors confirmed that two-thirds of them promptly sold the houses they wer…

noun

A person who has been given something by someone who is dead

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Inheritor of figurative we are the inheritors of greek and roman culture.

noun

A person to whom money is paid or is to be paid, especially the person to whom a cheque is made payable.

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On the other hand, there were dispositions of the company's money between the company and the payee…

noun

A person to whom money is given or owed

noun

A person that money or a cheque is paid to or should be paid to

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They filled in the amount on the cheque, but left the payee's name blank.

noun

The part of a telephone apparatus contained in the earpiece, in which electrical signals are converted into sounds.

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Working independently, gray and bell both developed systems based on electromagnetic receivers with…

noun

A person or thing that receives or is awarded something.

Usage examples:

The recipient of the nobel peace prize

adjective

Receiving or capable of receiving something.

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A recipient country

noun

A person who receives something

Usage examples:

Lund was the first female recipient of an artificial heart.