Allocatee

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A recipient of designated resources or responsibilities as determined by an allocating authority
2. An individual assigned specific assets or tasks based on a distribution plan
3. Someone who has been given particular resources or duties by a distributing party

Etymology: "Allocatee" is formed in English from "allocate" plus the suffix "-ee", which marks the person who receives something. The pattern is the same as "employee," "trainee," or "payee," where "-ee" names the one on the receiving end of an action. Here the action is allocating, meaning to assign or set aside a share of something for a particular purpose. The base verb "allocate" comes from Latin "allocare," meaning "to place in a particular spot," which passed through medieval Latin "allocatus" and entered English as a learned borrowing. The "-ee" suffix itself arrived through Old French "-é," from Latin "-atus," the ending that marks a past participle, and became common in English legal and commercial words from the Middle English period onward.

Synonyms: recipient, assignee