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Synonyms for legatee


Grammar : Noun
Spell : leg-uh-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛg əˈti

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Définition of legatee

  • As in owner : noun person who has possession of
  • As in beneficiary : noun person who gains, benefits
  • As in possessor : noun owner
  • As in recipient : noun receiver
  • As in holder : noun owner
Example sentences :
  • Just so much as the testator parts with the legatee obtains.
  • Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton
  • The legacy and the legatee have proved equally unsubstantial.
  • Extract from : « Six Letters From the Colonies » by Robert Seaton
  • There is "many a slip betwixt the cup" of the legator and "the lip" of the legatee.
  • Extract from : « George Muller of Bristol » by Arthur T. Pierson
  • He may himself be a legatee and endeavor to transfer to himself.
  • Extract from : « Commercial Law » by Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill
  • Then, too, there was a possibility that Herbert would turn out a legatee.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Carter's Legacy » by Horatio Alger
  • What was her position as legatee to her situation as a woman?
  • Extract from : « Two on a Tower » by Thomas Hardy
  • Flo Why how can Mark Trenchard's property be yours, unless you marry the legatee.
  • Extract from : « Our American Cousin » by Tom Taylor
  • In case of death, Gobseck would make you legatee of my property.
  • Extract from : « Gobseck » by Honore de Balzac
  • It flashed upon him presently that a legatee could not benefit by a will which he had witnessed.
  • Extract from : « Fenton's Quest » by M. E. Braddon
  • The Van Eltens and Brodericks all fared hardly at the hands of their legatee.
  • Extract from : « The Desert and The Sown » by Mary Hallock Foote

Antonyms for legatee

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