Also erron. -ferree. [f. TRANSFER v. + -EE.]
1. One to whom a transfer is made. (Chiefly in Law, as correlative to TRANSFEROR or TRANSFERRER.)
1735. Bailey (folio), Pref. Transféree, the Person to whom any Thing is transferred.
1789–90. A. Hamilton, in Debates Congress (1834), II. 2048. The transferable quality of stock … depends on the idea of complete security to the transferee. Ibid. (1801), Wks. (1886), VII. 187. A discrimination between original holders and transferees of the public debt.
1905. Times, 3 April, 8/4. Mr. B. signed a blank transfer as transferee.
2. One who is transferred or removed; e.g., from one position or grade to another.
1892. Daily News, 27 Oct., 5/5. The children removed under the law from gaols to reformatories in the past year have done fairly well; but, looking to the difficulty in inducing employers to take these transferees into their service, they urge [etc.].
1899. Educat. Rev., XVIII. 27. No disgrace was entailed upon the transferees, who were advanced with the rest of that class at the regular promotion.
