BENEFACTIVE ROLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benefactive role mean? 

• BENEFACTIVE ROLE (noun)
  The noun BENEFACTIVE ROLE has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENEFACTIVE ROLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

benefactive role; beneficiary

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

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