assignee vs attorney

assignee

noun
  • one who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent 

  • one to whom rights or property is being transferred 

  • one to whom a thing is assigned 

attorney

noun
  • An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf. 

  • A solicitor. 

  • An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty. 

  • Clusia spp. 

  • A prosecutor 

  • A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. 

verb
  • To work as a legal attorney. 

  • To provide with a legal attorney. 

How often have the words assignee and attorney occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )