recoveree noun4 •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. — 1996 •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. — 2007 •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. — 1966 •(historical) The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.In all recoveries it is necessary that the recoveree, or tenant to the praecipe, as he is usually called, be actually seised of the freehold, else the recovery is void. — 1915 formsrecoverees
