Active and Voluntary

Active

Active adjective - Being in effective operation.

Voluntary and active are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Voluntary" instead an adjective "Active".

Voluntary

Voluntary adjective - Done, made, or given with one's own free will.

Active and voluntary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Active" instead an adjective "Voluntary".

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / We Are Not the Wehrmacht After leaving the service, every German soldier becomes a reservist (and can re-join the active service until a certain age), although reservist duty is nearly entirely voluntary.
  • Useful Notes / Vatican City This isn't to say that the Church is opposed to freedom or democracy — quite the opposite — but that the Vatican works best as it is, and nobody complains (it is the only state in the world where everyone who lives there has made an active and completely voluntary choice to do so).
  • National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster is a group of a number of organizations that are active in various facets of disaster response.
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