PHRASAL VERB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phrasal verb mean? 

• PHRASAL VERB (noun)
  The noun PHRASAL VERB has 1 sense:

1. an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit

  Familiarity information: PHRASAL VERB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHRASAL VERB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

'turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question 'how many turned out to vote?'

Hypernyms ("phrasal verb" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)