noun
- a person who receives a distribution of property or money from an estate, trust, or other source
Usage: legal/formal term; commonly used in estate and trust law
Examples
- The distributee of the trust received quarterly payments from the estate.
- Each distributee was entitled to an equal share of the inheritance.
- The will named three distributees who would split the assets.
- As a distributee under the trust agreement, she had legal rights to the income.
- The executor identified all distributees before distributing the estate.