benefactive role

1. 1.

   the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   Synonymsbeneficiary

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about benefactive role

What does benefactive role mean?

benefactive role means "the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause".

What is another word for benefactive role?

Close synonyms include beneficiary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benefactive role a common word?

benefactive role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.