active vocabulary

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Noun[edit]

active vocabulary (countable and uncountable, plural active vocabularies)

  1. The collection of words and phrases that someone commonly uses in speech and writing.
    Synonym: working vocabulary
    Coordinate term: passive vocabulary
    Joan's active vocabulary consists of over ten thousand words.

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