ACTIVE CITIZEN collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of active and citizen
active
adjective
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/ˈæk.tɪv/us
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/ˈæk.tɪv/
citizen
uk
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/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
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/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
Examples of active citizen
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That is, a common language enables the speaker to be an active citizen.
Being an active citizen is a measure extracted out of responses to an open-ended question about what makes for a good citizen.
The paper assumed the role of an active citizen seeking knowledge about, and answers to, the grave problems of urban life.
It can be suggested that more attention should be focused on the role of the spatially active citizen and the ways in which urban space was used in everyday life.
Those centres will play an important part in what it means to be an active citizen who makes good choices.
I believe that, wherever one is living, there is a role for the active citizen.
It is extremely difficult to be an active citizen if one is working in the teeth of local opposition.
Many excellent ideas are set out in that document, which provides a framework for the active citizen.
In areas where that is more difficult, there is still a role for the active citizen.
The role of the active citizen and of voluntary organisations was paramount in the overall strength of that community.
The active citizen working abroad is indispensable to the future of the world.
We are moving towards electronic voting; methods of being engaged as an active citizen more and more depend on access.
He mentioned crime prevention and gave the name of one active citizen who visits the police station daily and is co-ordinating neighbourhood watch schemes.
Does she agree that there is probably no better way to be an active citizen than to become a special constable?
However, much more important is the significance for the concept of the active citizen of the concept of having a jury.
Implicit in what he has just said is a definition of the active citizen.
The role of an active citizen is potentially one of great importance when it comes to improving such an environment for large numbers of people.
The motion seeks to raise awareness of the vital role of the active citizen, both as an individual and joining others in voluntary groups to help the community generally.
People can travel all over the world and stock markets can respond to each other's communications within seconds, so we must consider the active citizen in a worldwide sense.
It is most important that they should be used for policing purposes in neighbourhood watch areas as we try to build up the role of the active citizen.
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