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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 clause
Familiarity information: RECIPIENT ROLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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