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retained object

Gram. an object in a passive construction that is the same as the direct or indirect object in the corresponding active construction (Ex.: “money” in “He was given the money by me”)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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