treatee

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noun

One who receives treatment.

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Meanings

nountreatee (plural treatees)

plural treatees

  1. One who receives treatment.

    I don't know why I do things like that except that sometimes I think that the principal difference between the treater and the treatee is that the treater is in possession of the keys, if only in a symbolic sense […]

    2014, Martin Fleishman, The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, page 58
  2. One who is given a treat.

    Is "standing treat" a sale of liquor? Certainly to the "treator," but is it a sale to the "treatee"?

    1888, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes, volume 7, page 131

Origin

From treat + -ee.

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APA

treatee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treatee

MLA

“treatee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treatee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “treatee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treatee.

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