active role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactiveandrole
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active
adjective
uk/ˈæk.tɪv/us/ˈæk.tɪv/
busy with a ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofactiveandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofactive role
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Most of the participants' mothers played both a passive andactiverolein their daughters' illnesses and also both a negative and positive role.
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Findings from both methods indicate that this region most likely plays noactiverolein (apex) dreaming.
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They also have to play a more politicallyactiverole.
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With reduction in light level from daylight to twilight, rods begin to play anactiverole, and both rods and cones contribute to visual perception.
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All this suggests that dogs, and not only chimpanzees, possess prerequisites for taking anactiverolein dynamic, creative, coregulated interactions.
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During filming and after filming residents and interviewees took on an increasinglyactiverolein the process.
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The teacher had a moreactiverolein the initial stages, investigating the software and the sound materials with the students.
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We shall examine several types of 'musical formalism' in order to bring out theactiveroleof the composer in the compositional process.
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A question remains : does a sporocyst play anactiverolein avoiding destruction by the oxygendependent cytotoxic armoury of a snail?
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Knowing that the separation-of-powers insulates them from such legislative overrides, courts may be emboldened to take on a moreactiverole.
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In other words, these 'unaccompanied' works retained anactiverolein the repertory.
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In both cases, individuals can play anactiverole, or can be silent.
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This judicialization strategy is effective in separation-of-powers systems, because courts may be willing to take anactiverolein the review of administrative actions.
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Their religion may also have made it possible for them (and the middling sort) to allow those below them a moreactiverole.
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As a result, the market share of managed care insurers who take anactiverolein managing the delivery of care has risen dramatically (25).
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It became harder and harder to persuade party members to take on public functions or anactiverole.
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The frequenters took anactiverolein the political process of political reform.
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Nonetheless, to play anactiverole, opposition needs both scope and be willing to use the opportunity.
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Thatactiveroleproduced a series of last-minute scrambles to provide sufficient funds.
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