discontinuee

English

Etymology

From discontinue +‎ -ee.

Noun

discontinuee (plural discontinuees)

1. (law, historical) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discontinuee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)