HyperDic: affected_role

English > 1 sense of the expression affected role:
NOUNcommunicationaffected role, patient role, patientthe semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
English > affected role: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningThe semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.
Synonymspatient role, patient
Broadersemantic role, participant role(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause

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