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  • noun One who responds.

Etymologies

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respond +‎ -ee

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Examples

  • So did Martínez get to be guest of honour on account of being the only LMA respondee still in work, or was he booked up earlier in the season when it appeared possible he might have time on his hands come October?

    Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish Paul Wilson 2010

  • Adam Ingram again was the nominal respondee and again the answer is incomplete.

    Taxi! £250 a mile, guv! Richard 2006

  • I'm sure the respondee meant well, and I'll check out those bands eventually, but I'm still trying to get past the gratuitous insult.

    When You Ask For A Story... zoethe 2004

  • Closer to art in our sense of the word are riddles which are self-annihilating word games, a form of social entertainment that also presupposes the existence of precise answers to questions, but which require the agency of interlocutor and respondee to complete the process: riddles cease to exist when the meaning is discovered.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

  • This time they've limited it to a simpler set of questions, but with no more justification and no less danger to the respondee.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • Did it ever occur to you that the respondee might be an imposter?

    Ace of Spades HQ DrewM. 2010

  • The surveys answers were submitted via text forms, allowing the respondee to write whatever they desired, and leaving the task of making comparisons between the data up to me.

    Fast Company 2010

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