Usually means: Question embedded within another sentence.
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  1. indirect question: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. indirect question: Collins English Dictionary
  3. indirect question: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. indirect question: Dictionary.com
  5. Indirect question: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. indirect question: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. indirect question: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Indirect question: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Indirect question: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Indirect question: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (indirect question)

noun:  (grammar) A question asked in an indirect way; either as a statement, for example I'd like to know how much I would earn; or enclosed in another question, for example Could you tell me how much I would earn?

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