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English 1 sense of the expression patient role:
NOUNcommunicationpatient role, affected 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
Englishpatient 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.
Synonymsaffected 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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