light verb
noun1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
noun
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
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