Usually means: Subject acted upon by verb.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive voice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passive voice: Vocabulary.com
  3. passive voice: Wordnik
  4. passive-voice, passive voice: Wiktionary
  5. passive voice: Dictionary.com
  6. Passive voice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. passive voice: Rhymezone
  8. passive voice: FreeDictionary.org
  9. passive voice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. passive voice: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Passive Voice: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passive voice: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Passive Voice: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See passive_voices as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (passive voice)

noun:  (grammar) The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.

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