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prepositional verb
noun
, Grammar.
- a combination of verb and preposition, often with idiomatic meaning, differing from other phrasal verbs in that an object must always follow the preposition, as take after in The children take after their mother.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prepositional verb1
First recorded in 1960–65
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