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Definition of ditransitive adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

ditransitive

 adjective
adjective
NAmE//daɪˈtrænsət̮ɪv//
 
, NAmE//daɪˈtrænzət̮ɪv//
 
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(of verbs) used with two objects. In the sentence‘I gave her the book’, for example, the verb‘give’is ditransitive and‘her’and‘the books’are both objects.
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