passive role

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• passive role — role of observer, being one who is not directly involved …   English contemporary dictionary

• passive — adj. VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very …   Collocations dictionary

• passive — Income or loss from business activities in which a person does not materially participate, such as a limited partnership. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * passive pas‧sive [ˈpæsɪv] adjective [only before a noun] 1. FINANCE passive investment… …   Financial and business terms

• passive — passively, adv. /pas iv/, adj. 1. not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling. 2. not participating readily or actively; inactive: a passive member of a committee. 3. not involving… …   Universalium

• passive — pas|sive1 [ˈpæsıv] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: passivus, from pati; PASSION] 1.) someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen to them or things that people say to them, without taking any action →↑impassive ▪ Kathy seems… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• passive — 1 adjective 1 tending to accept situations or things that other people do, without attempting to change or fight against them; submissive: They accepted their defeat with passive resignation. | Kathy seems to take the passive role in the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• passive — adjective 1) a passive role Syn: inactive, nonactive, nonparticipative, uninvolved 2) passive victims Syn: submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, unassertive, compliant, pliant, obedient …   Thesaurus of popular words

• passive — adjective 1) a passive role Syn: inactive, non active, non participative, uninvolved 2) passive victims Syn: submissive, acquiescent, unresisting, compliant, docile • Ant …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• Passive smoking — is the involuntary inhalation of smoke from tobacco products. It occurs when tobacco smoke permeates any environment, causing its inhalation by all people within that environment. Such smoke is called secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental… …   Wikipedia

• Passive radar — systems (also referred to as passive coherent location and passive covert radar) encompass a class of radar systems that detect and track objects by processing reflections from non cooperative sources of illumination in the environment, such as… …   Wikipedia

• role — n. 1) to assume, take (on) a role 2) to assign, hand out roles 3) to interpret; perform, play; understudy a role 4) an active; key; leading; passive; secondary; starring; supporting; title role 5) (misc.) cast in the role of * * * [rəʊl] hand out …   Combinatory dictionary