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title: "Admin: Restore Vocabulary"
slug: "administrator-help-restore-vocabulary"
updated: 2024-06-18T14:09:51Z
published: 2024-06-18T14:09:51Z
canonical: "support.nvoq.com/administrator-help-restore-vocabulary"
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# Admin: Restore Vocabulary

When vocabulary terms are in the trash they can restored within 30 days* of the Deletion Date.

When vocabulary is restored:

- Terms are moved back to the account or organization listed in the Owner column.
- Terms are added back to user profiles.
- Vocabulary History is restored.

*******Vocabulary in trash can be restored for 30 days as long as their owner account or organization has not been deleted.**

- If an **organization** that owned the vocabulary is deleted, the vocabulary term is deleted from trash also. Even if the organization is re-created with the same name and settings, the previously vocabulary will not reappear in Trash.
- If an **account** that owned vocabulary is deleted, vocabulary previously deleted from the account disappears from Trash. *If the account is restored within 30 days of the date that the vocabulary term was moved to trash*, the term reappears in Trash and can be still be restored within 30 days of the original Deletion Date.

To restore vocabulary from trash:

1. Click the Trash icon in the sidebar menu to go to the Trash page.![sideNav-trash-19-1-0 ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/sideNav-trash-19-1-0.png )
2. Select Vocabulary from the Item Type menu.![Trash-Item-Type-vocabulary ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Trash-Item-Type-vocabulary.png )
3. Select the vocabulary in the list view that you want to restore. You can restore account and organization vocabulary at the same time.![Trash-select-vocabulary-19-1-0 ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Trash-select-vocabulary-19-1-0.png )
4. Click the Restore icon in the blue toolbar (or click the Actions icon![Accounts-actions-icon ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Accounts-actions-icon.png )and select "Restore" next to one vocabulary term).![Trash-click-restore-icon-vocabulary ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Trash-click-restore-icon-vocabulary.png )
5. If successful, vocabulary is immediately restored back to the account or organization. Click the Notifications icon![Notifications-icon-1-new ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Notifications-icon-1-new.png )for a list of terms that were restored.![Trash-successfully-restored-vocabulary ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Trash-successfully-restored-vocabulary.png )
  - Restored vocabulary terms are moved back to the account or organization that was listed in the Owner column in the Trash Items list view.
  - Vocabulary terms are added back to user profiles.
  - Vocabulary History is restored.

Vocabulary will FAIL to be restored if:

- A vocabulary term with the same Written text was created in the same account or organization.  
![Trash-not-restored-vocabulary ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Trash-not-restored-vocabulary.png )
- Click the Notifications icon![Notifications-icon-1-new ](https://cdn.us.document360.io/03b5534a-5f9a-42ce-852d-08bf09105da4/Images/Documentation/Notifications-icon-1-new.png )to see the reason the vocabulary could not be restored.