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nonrestrictive clause
noun
Definition of NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
: a descriptive clause that is not essential to the definiteness of the meaning of the word it modifies (as who is retired in “my father, who is retired, does volunteer work”)
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First Known Use of NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE
1916
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