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Definition of agentive in English English dictionary
- Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer)
- Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb
- A word having this construction
- agentive nominalisation
- A construction whereby an action verb is made into an agent noun
- agentive role
- the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause
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