Usually means: Grammatical case indicating indirect object.
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  1. datives: Merriam-Webster
  2. datives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. datives: Vocabulary.com
  4. datives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. datives: Wiktionary
  6. datives: Dictionary.com
  7. Datives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. datives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. datives: Legal dictionary

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  1. datives: Encyclopedia

(Note: See dative as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dative)

adjective:  (grammar) Denoting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
adjective:  (sciences) Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
adjective:  (mathematics, obsolete) Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
noun:  (grammar) The dative case.
noun:  (grammar) A word inflected in the dative case.
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