A person who receives or is the target of communication; the listener or recipient in a communication exchange.
From 'communicate' plus -ee (suffix meaning 'one who receives the action'). A linguistic term parallel to 'employee' or 'addressee,' created in the 20th century.
Linguists invented 'communicatee' to mirror 'communicator,' but it never caught on because English speakers prefer 'listener,' 'audience,' or 'recipient'—showing that not all grammatically logical words survive.
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