devisee

noun

Definition of deviseenext
as in beneficiary

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Recent Examples of devisee That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse. — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
  1. beneficiary
  2. assignee
  3. legatee
  4. grantee
  5. heir
  6. claimant
  7. inheritor
Noun
  • Another beneficiary of lower fuel prices and cooling Middle East tensions.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • The fees per person would start at $325 a year for companies with 50 to 249 Medicaid beneficiaries and top out at $725 annually for employers with at least 500 recipients.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of beneficiary
Noun
  • Agents in Jira are generally available, allowing teams to assign work items to AI agents using the same interface as for human assignees, with full audit logging designed for compliance teams.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • To assign a task, simply tick a box, add a description, choose assignees, and input an optional due date.
    — Robert Anderson, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of assignee
Noun
  • The old immigrants are likely to remain—in the manner of the occasional Wasp legatee (Wagner, Lindsay) who poked in during the buoyant sixties—more visitors to wars over civic power than victors in them.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
Definition of legatee
Noun
  • In that environment, the organizations and funders who keep operating as if every problem can be solved by a single grantee will deliver diminishing returns.
    — Frédérique Irwin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Dollar amounts are no specified but grantees will use the money for general unrestricted operating expenses.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
Definition of grantee
Noun
  • Mojtaba Khamenei, Khamenei’s son and expectant heir, is notably absent.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
  • The Prince of Wales sadly won’t be attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s wedding Friday in New York City, but the heir to the British throne nonetheless made sure to offer some royal prestige to events.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2026
Definition of heir
Noun
  • On July 7, the Duke of Sussex and a fellow claimant, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, issued a scathing statement following a judge’s dismissal of their case against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited, which was filed in 2022.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 7 July 2026
  • Harry and the six other high-profile claimants failed to prove their allegations that the publisher unlawfully obtained private information through methods including private investigators, deception, phone hacking and corrupt payments.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Definition of claimant
Noun
  • The former One Direction star's son Bear, 9, is the sole inheritor of $29,007,998 from the singer's estate.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Definition of inheritor

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