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RECIPIENT ROLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recipient role mean? 

RECIPIENT ROLE (noun)
  The noun RECIPIENT ROLE has 1 sense:

1. the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clauseplay

  Familiarity information: RECIPIENT ROLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECIPIENT ROLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

recipient; recipient role

Hypernyms ("recipient role" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)


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