People or organizations that receive grants, funding, or legal privileges from a grantor. Recipients of awarded money, property, or rights through a formal granting process.
From Old French 'granter' meaning 'to promise' or 'consent to', ultimately from Latin 'credere' (to believe/trust). The '-ee' suffix, borrowed from French past participle endings, indicates the recipient of an action.
The word 'grantees' embodies the fundamental human relationship of giving and receiving within formal structures – it transforms the simple act of giving into a legal and institutional process. The linguistic structure itself tells the story: the '-ee' ending creates a parallel to employees, trustees, and other recipients, showing how English systematically categorizes people by their relationship to institutional power.
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