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The person a letter blames for not writing back sooner.
means The person to whom a letter, package, or message is specifically directed.
from Built from 'address' plus the suffix '-ee,' which marks the receiver of an action (as in 'employee' or 'payee'). 'Address' itself traces back through French 'adresser' to Latin 'ad-' (toward) plus 'directus' (straight, direct) — so an addressee is, quite literally, the one a thing is pointed straight at.
- legal use
- Common in contracts to name who receives notice
- postal cousin
- Different from sender, same envelope's problem
- not the addresser
- One writes, the other just gets mail