"lunchee" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lunchees [plural]
Etymology: From lunch + -ee. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lunch|ee}} lunch + -ee Head templates: {{en-noun}} lunchee (plural lunchees)
  1. One who is treated to lunch by another person. Categories (topical): People

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: luncher"
        },
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          "ref": "1998, Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt, Thinking About Management, page 147",
          "text": "Business is finally and gradually crept up on with careful avoidance of any implications that the lunch exists specifically to enhance the lunchee's opinions about the lunchor and the lunchor's assessment of the lunchee.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213",
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        "One who is treated to lunch by another person."
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          "ref": "2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213",
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