WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
com′plement clause′, [Ling.]
  1. Linguistics, Grammara subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it. Also called com′plement sen′tence. 

'complement clause' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
complementizer - equi NP deletion

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