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depositee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-posi-tee
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The person with whom something is deposited.

noun

A member of the lowest of the three population classes created by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge party in Cambodia after their revolution in the 1970s. These people were 'deposited' in the villages after being removed from the cities.

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin dēpōnō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin deposituslbor. English deposit English -ee English depositee From deposit + -ee.

Inflected Forms

depositees (plural)

Questions

What does depositee mean?
The person with whom something is deposited.
Where does depositee come from?
Etymology tree Latin dēpōnō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin deposituslbor. English deposit English -ee English depositee From deposit + -ee.

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