A person or entity who receives a cession; the recipient of transferred property, rights, or territory.
From cession with the suffix -ee (meaning 'one who receives'). This English formation parallels trustee, lessee, and licensee, creating a parallel vocabulary for the receiving party.
The -ee suffix (used in employee, trainee, payee) is a clever English way to show who's on the receiving end of an action, and cessionee follows this same pattern—it's how English handles who gets what in legal transfers.
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