adoptee
uh dop tee
- n someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
- Indeed, says Betty Jean Lifton, an adoptee and the author of Lost and Found.
- The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call .
- Another important funding source has been the Dave Thomas Foundation, created by the late founder of Wendy's, an adoptee himself, to encourage the adoption of foster kids.