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passive vocabulary

  
noun
    The definition of a passive vocabulary is a list of all of the words and definitions of a language, profession, specialized group of individuals or from a specific person.

    An example of a passive vocabulary is a collection of words and definitions in a dictionary.


passive-vocabulary

Noun

(plural passive vocabularies)

  1. The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!
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