Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that is examined.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One examined, or who undergoes an examination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A person examined.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The one who is examined.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination)

Etymologies

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examine +‎ -ee (“object of”)

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Examples

  • The examiners deliberately foul up a MicroMatic draft dispense system and the examinee has to troubleshoot the equipment to make the beer pour right.

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  • AFQT scores are not raw scores, but rather percentile scores indicating how each examinee performed compared with all other examinees.

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  • AFQT scores are not raw scores, but rather percentile scores indicating how each examinee performed compared with all other examinees.

    GOP Debate–Hardly Any Mention Of Immigration 2008

  • Another hapless examinee wrote: "Dear examiner, I have tried really hard, please be kind to my paper."

    A working life: The examiner Mark Tran 2010

  • AFQT scores are not raw scores, but rather percentile scores indicating how each examinee performed compared with all other examinees.

    Army Getting Lower IQ Recruits 2008

  • Otani blushes then angrily tells them them that a busy examinee like him has no time to think about things like that.

    Lovely Complex ep 22 « Undercover 2007

  • An exam, however, may attempt to cover as much lessons as it possibly could and extract them from the examinee through a series of creatively designed portions in the exam paper – but not all.

    Can a perfect Exam be Constructed? 2009

  • An exam, however, may attempt to cover as much lessons as it possibly could and extract them from the examinee through a series of creatively designed portions in the exam paper – but not all.

    Can a perfect Exam be Constructed? 2009

  • If my memory serves me right, there was a time when the CSC is allowing government personnel to take the professional career service examination even if they have not graduated in college, provided the examinee has logged in at least two years of college education and five years of continuous government service at the time the CSC test is administered.

    CSC needs to upgrade merit system in government 2008

  • He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling. ''

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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