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returnee

noun
/ɹɪˌtɜːˈniː/UK/ɹɪˌtɝˈniː/US

Etymology

From return + -ee.

  1. derived from retornare
  2. derived from retourner
  3. derived from returner
  4. inherited from returnen
  5. suffixed as returnee — “return + ee”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA