chargee

See also: chargée

English

Etymology

From charge +‎ -ee.

Noun

chargee (plural chargees)

1. One who is charged; the person on whom a charge is levied, who is charged with a crime, who is charged to do something, etc.
   • 1948, The Chemical Age - Volume 59, page 133:

     June 18, charge to the Industrial Rehabilitiation Finance Board securing all sums which the chargees may be called upon to pay under or by reason of a guarantee;

   • 1995, Geneva Smitherman, African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas:

     The most important point in the prehearing thinking was that both the charger and the chargee were African Americans.

   • 1999, Richard Mervyn Hare, R. M. Hare, Objective Prescriptions, and Other Essays, pages 43–44:

     Imperative speech acts vary enormously in the relation of the speaker to the chargee, the purposes sought, the kind of situation, the presence or absence of a power of enforcement or threat of punishment, and many other features.

   • 2011, Jesse Spears, The Science of Magic, page 38:

     Charging modifies the first attack of the charger, and the first attack of the chargee.

2. (law) The holder or beneficiary of a charge or right in security (such as a debenture).
   • 1998, Air and Space Law - Volume 23, page ii:

     A chargee proposing to sell or grant a lease of an object under paragraph 1 otherwise than pursuant to a court order shall give reasonable prior notice in writing of the proposed sale or lease to interested persons.

   • 2012, Horst Eidenmüller, Eva-Maria Kieninger, The Future of Secured Credit in Europe, page 89:

     A charge differs from a trust because the chargee's right to the chargor's right is defeasible upon the chargor paying what he owes.

3. (law, Africa) One who is given charge of caring for another's animal or herd.
   • 1954, Taslim Olawale Elias, Groundwork of Nigerian Law, page 237:

     But the chargee will be entitled to a proportionate abatement of the price of the animal if the carcass is later sold.

   • 1970, E. Cotran, N. N. Rubin, Readings in African Law, Volume 1, page 222:

     Among the Yorubas, the first breed belongs to the owner of the animal, the next to the chargee, the third to the owner, and so on.

   • 1984, Odu: A Journal of West African Studies - Issues 25-31, page 97:

     In the latter case the potential chargee made a direct approach to his relative, friend or neighbour who possessed livestock (goats, for instance) or was capable of procuring some, indicating his interest in being a chargee for his animal.

Coordinate terms

• (legal): chargor