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The one who receives; the grantor gets the paperwork, the grantee gets the thing.
means The person or party to whom something is formally granted — land, rights, a license, a deed.
from Built from 'grant' (from Old French 'granter/creanter', to promise or consent, ultimately tracing back to Latin 'credere', to believe or trust) plus the legal suffix '-ee', which marks the receiver of an action — the same pattern as employee or payee. The grantor does the granting; the grantee, by that tidy suffix, simply receives it.
- opposite role
- grantor gives, grantee gets
- common context
- real estate deeds and legal transfers
- funding sense
- organization or person receiving grant money
- etymology
- from grant plus agent suffix -ee