Etymology

actionee

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Today it means: The recipient of an action item; the person assigned responsibility for a specific task or issue. Full definition →

English action ← Middle English accioun ← Old French aucion
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The story

  1. Old Frenchaucion
  2. Middle Englishaccioun
  3. Englishaction
  4. English todayactionee

From action + -ee.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.