Definitions for "Indirect object"
Keywords:  grammatical, verb, noun, whom, goal
an object used with verbs that take two objects. For example, in "I gave him the pen" and "I gave the pen to him", "him" is the indirect object and "pen" is the direct object. Compare direct object.
the constituent of a sentence most typically associated with the goal or recipient role. In English indirect objects are often PPs with the preposition to, e.g. Lee gave the book to his friend.
the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb