indirect-object

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Attributive form of indirect object, noun
A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that usually manifests as a recipient or goal

He gave the money to the bank.

An indirect object is an object which is used with a transitive verb to indicate who benefits from an action or gets something as a result. For example, in `She gave him her address', `him' is the indirect object. Compare direct object. An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb, as me in Sing me a song and turtles in He feeds turtles lettuce. an object of a verb that refers to the person that something is given to, said to, made for etc. For example, in the sentence 'I asked him a question', the indirect object is 'him'
(Grammar) person or thing indirectly affected by the action of the verb (i.e. "him" in "give him the book")
the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb