Returnee
//ɹɪˌtɜːˈniː// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.
"They recognise too, from the gait, from her posture, that whatever this returnee’s specific reasons for crossing whatever borders she did, they were painful, heavier still than all of her luggage."
- 2 A person who sends something back.
Example
More examples"They recognise too, from the gait, from her posture, that whatever this returnee’s specific reasons for crossing whatever borders she did, they were painful, heavier still than all of her luggage."
Etymology
From return + -ee.
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