returnee

Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.

Noun

  1. Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.
    • They recognise too, from the gait, from her posture, that whatever this returnee’s specific reasons for crossing whatever borders she did, they were painful, heavier still than all of her luggage. - 2022, NoViolet...

    Synonyms: returner

  2. A person who sends something back.

    Synonyms: returner

Origin

Etymology tree English return English -ee English returnee From return + -ee.

Forms

returnees