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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An actant that has been 'demoted' to a less salient syntactic position, such as the agent of a passive clause.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Relational Grammar
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from French chômeur. Coined by Colette Grinevald.
