assignee
- n (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
- Headed by Managing Director Eugene MacLean, onetime Washington Post general manager, the Observer editors promptly asked a court for an assignee to preserve the weekly's .
- These problems arise in the context of securitization and illustrate the difficulty of determining the name of the holder, the assignee of the mortgage, and the parties with both .