Usually means: Recipient of the action's benefit.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word indirect object:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. indirect object: Merriam-Webster
  2. indirect object: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indirect object: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indirect object: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indirect object: Vocabulary.com
  6. indirect object: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. indirect-object, indirect object: Wiktionary
  8. indirect object: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. indirect object: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. indirect object: Dictionary.com
  11. Indirect object: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. indirect object: Rhymezone
  13. indirect object, indirect object (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. indirect object: FreeDictionary.org
  15. indirect object: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. indirect object: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. indirect object: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See indirect_objects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (indirect object)

noun:  (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
noun:  (grammar, in languages with case distinctions also) The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.

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