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immediate constituent

noun

, Grammar.
  1. one of the usually two largest constituents of a construction: The immediate constituents of He ate his dinner are he and ate his dinner; of ate his dinner are ate and his dinner; etc. : IC

immediate constituent

noun

  1. a constituent of a linguistic construction at the first step in an analysis; for example, the immediate constituents of a sentence are the subject and the predicate

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Origin of immediate constituent1

First recorded in 1930–35

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