active role

collocation in English

meanings of activeand role

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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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Examples of active role

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Most of the participants' mothers played both a passive and activerole in their daughters' illnesses and also both a negative and positive role.
Findings from both methods indicate that this region most likely plays no activerole in (apex) dreaming.
They also have to play a more politically activerole.
With reduction in light level from daylight to twilight, rods begin to play an activerole, and both rods and cones contribute to visual perception.
All this suggests that dogs, and not only chimpanzees, possess prerequisites for taking an activerole in dynamic, creative, coregulated interactions.
During filming and after filming residents and interviewees took on an increasingly activerole in the process.
The teacher had a more activerole in the initial stages, investigating the software and the sound materials with the students.
We shall examine several types of 'musical formalism' in order to bring out the activerole of the composer in the compositional process.
A question remains : does a sporocyst play an activerole in avoiding destruction by the oxygendependent cytotoxic armoury of a snail?
Knowing that the separation-of-powers insulates them from such legislative overrides, courts may be emboldened to take on a more activerole.
In other words, these 'unaccompanied' works retained an activerole in the repertory.
In both cases, individuals can play an activerole, or can be silent.
This judicialization strategy is effective in separation-of-powers systems, because courts may be willing to take an activerole in the review of administrative actions.
Their religion may also have made it possible for them (and the middling sort) to allow those below them a more activerole.
As a result, the market share of managed care insurers who take an activerole in managing the delivery of care has risen dramatically (25).
It became harder and harder to persuade party members to take on public functions or an activerole.
The frequenters took an activerole in the political process of political reform.
Nonetheless, to play an activerole, opposition needs both scope and be willing to use the opportunity.
That activerole produced a series of last-minute scrambles to provide sufficient funds.
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