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 When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate. — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
  1. beneficiary
  2. assignee
  3. legatee
  4. grantee
  5. heir
  6. claimant
  7. inheritor
Noun
  • Valar has been both closely involved with those reforms and a beneficiary of them.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Notices informing beneficiaries that their status would be ending had already been issued and were ready to be sent to a printer.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 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
  • The Sixers donated 5,000 tickets to local community groups and Sixers Youth Foundation grantee partners and more than $80,000 was raised for the Sixers Youth Foundation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Katie McQue's reporting is supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which is a grantee of Coefficient Giving.
    — Katie McQue, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of grantee
Noun
  • Earlier this year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the university and the Academy were renegotiating heir relationship; Drexel wanted a full merger, which would grant it the building, endowment and collections.
    — Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Because assets remaining in the trust will generally pass to charity, life insurance is sometimes incorporated into the estate plan to replace wealth for the seller’s heirs.
    — D. Scott Kenik, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of heir
Noun
  • Right now, there’s an employee who will be your organization’s highest-cost claimant in three years.
    — Neepa Patel, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Previously, individual payouts were capped at $51 per claimant.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of claimant
Noun
  • Young and middle-aged inheritors are more digitally savvy and activism-oriented than older generations.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The hope behind the request was that the proud inheritor of the Byzantine empire could escape its associations with a pretty derpy American bird.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Definition of inheritor

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