recipient role

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsrecipient

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about recipient role

What does recipient role mean?

recipient role means "the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause".

What is another word for recipient role?

Close synonyms include recipient. 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 recipient role a common word?

recipient 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.