retained object

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   an object in a passive construction

   Broaderobject

Questions about retained object

What does retained object mean?

retained object means "an object in a passive construction".

Is retained object a common word?

retained object 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.