Usually means: Sentence with independent and dependent clauses.
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  1. complex sentence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. complex sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  3. complex sentence: Vocabulary.com
  4. complex sentence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. complex sentence: Wiktionary
  6. complex sentence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. complex sentence: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. complex sentence: Dictionary.com
  9. Complex sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. complex sentence: Rhymezone
  11. complex sentence: FreeDictionary.org
  12. complex sentence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. complex sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (complex sentence)

noun:  (grammar) A sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause.
noun:  (linguistics) A sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence.

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