"passive vocabulary" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: passive vocabularies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} passive vocabulary (plural passive vocabularies)
  1. The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use. Translations (words and phrases that someone understands but does not commonly use): 被動詞彙 (Chinese Mandarin), 被动词汇 (bèidòng cíhuì) (Chinese Mandarin), passieve woordenschat [masculine] (Dutch), passiivinen sanavarasto (Finnish), vocabulaire passif [masculine] (French), passiver Wortschatz [masculine] (German), słownik bierny [masculine] (Polish), vocabulário passivo [masculine] (Portuguese), vocabular pasiv [neuter] (Romanian), пасси́вный слова́рный запа́с (passívnyj slovárnyj zapás) [masculine] (Russian), пасси́вная ле́ксика (passívnaja léksika) [feminine] (Russian), пасси́вный лексико́н (passívnyj leksikón) [masculine] (Russian), пасси́вный слова́рь (passívnyj slovárʹ) [masculine] (Russian), паси́вний словнико́вий запа́с (pasývnyj slovnykóvyj zapás) [masculine] (Ukrainian), паси́вний словни́к (pasývnyj slovnýk) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-passive_vocabulary-en-noun-LSD2~I8R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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