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phrasal prepositional verb en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
    • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on. 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:

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phrasal prepositional verbs Number=Plur lexicographic