controlled vocabulary
noun
1 Education a limited range of words used in teaching a person (now especially a child) to read at a particular level, with new items gradually being introduced as reading skills advance.
2(In information science) a prescribed set of terms which may be used in abstracting, indexing, etc., and which is recognized within that system as having a predetermined set of meanings.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Classical Weekly.
- accountantship
- account book
- account day
- accounter
- account executive
- account for
- accounting
- accounting board
- accounting book
- accounting day
- accounting house
- accounting machine
- accounting period
- accounting table
- account keeper
- account ledger
- accountless
- accountment
- account rendered
- accounts book
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- accouple
- accouplement
- accoupling