recoveree

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.

   • As already indicated elsewhere (vide ante, c. ix.), a recovery was only, even if real and adverse, effective as against the party — the recoveree and his heirs and legal representatives — that is, those "privy" to him in estate.
   • In all recoveries it is necessary that the recoveree, or tenant to the præcipe, as he is usually called, be actually seised of the freehold, else the recovery is void.
2. 2

   Someone who is in the process of recovering from addiction.

   • The area was much too important to the prospective recoveree to be tampered with by mortal man.
   • In this CCAR program, a recoveree receives a phone call from a trained CCAR volunteer (usually a person in recovery) once a week for a minimum of 12 weeks to check-in on the recoveree's progress.
3. 3

   Someone who has or is in the process of recovering from an illness.

   • It was like I was the one, not John, who was recovering from an illness, and I had all of the recoveree's heightened senses and exalted oaths to stop being dead to this carniaval called life.
   • Often when well-meaning friends or relatives compliment the recoveree on how much healthier they look, the recoveree's mind replaces "healthy" with "fat."
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   1. 4

      Someone who has been rescued by a combat operation.

      • It was decided that all recoverees should be screened by the medical staff of USAHS Marigold, anchored in Yokohama harbor.
      • Only a few officers were told that the recoverees would be POWs.
      • He also understood the implication that the recoverees might still have mixed allegiance.

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