passive vocabulary

English

passive vocabulary (plural passive vocabularies)

The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
Coordinate term: active vocabulary

John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!

words and phrases that someone understands but does not commonly use

Chinese:
Mandarin: 被動詞彙／被动词汇 (bèidòng cíhuì)
Dutch: passieve woordenschat m
Finnish: passiivinen sanavarasto
French: vocabulaire passif m
German: passiver Wortschatz (de) m
Polish: słownik bierny m
Portuguese: vocabulário passivo m
Romanian: vocabular pasiv (ro) n
Russian: пасси́вный слова́рный запа́с m (passívnyj slovárnyj zapás), пасси́вная ле́ксика f (passívnaja léksika), пасси́вный лексико́н m (passívnyj leksikón), пасси́вный слова́рь (ru) m (passívnyj slovárʹ)
Ukrainian: паси́вний словнико́вий запа́с m (pasývnyj slovnykóvyj zapás), паси́вний словни́к m (pasývnyj slovnýk)

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