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  • noun Plural form of rescuee.

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Examples

  • When do you hear the animal rescuers calling their rescuees dumb and dirty?

    Afternoon Awwwww… Baby Owls : #comments 2007

  • The thought deepened Acorna's smile as she greeted the rescuees.

    Massage 2010

  • Rather than an alternate time line, perhaps the “rescuees” go back in time (like Desmond did) and get a chance to create a different future.

    The Tail Section » Theory Time - Rite Aid Confirms Christian Shephard Alive 2007

  • Prisoners and rescuees alike were crowded into a compartment that soon stank of fear and excretions for which no facilities existed.

    The Dragon Never Sleeps Cook, Glen 1988

  • What with public schools having to beg parents for money and US. rescue services sometimes charging mountain and forest rescuees for the helicopter ride.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • PlumbDrumb especially with those rescue missions; you have to be carefull not to kill the rescuees, so mass explosive mayhem is not always an option.

    Gamersyde Game2k 2010

  • PlumbDrumb especially with those rescue missions; you have to be carefull not to kill the rescuees, so mass explosive mayhem is not always an option.

    Gamersyde Game2k 2010

  • The cascade of casualties that resulted from a pair of Black Hawk crashes in Somalia years ago, when successive groups of rescuers became rescuees in short order, need not happen if unmanned Black Hawks are available to conduct the rescue ops.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2010

  • PlumbDrumb especially with those rescue missions; you have to be carefull not to kill the rescuees, so mass explosive mayhem is not always an option.

    Gamersyde Game2k 2010

  • PlumbDrumb especially with those rescue missions; you have to be carefull not to kill the rescuees, so mass explosive mayhem is not always an option.

    Gamersyde Game2k 2010

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