proactive
FINANCE
involving a lot of buying and selling of shares, etc.:
active buying/tradingTrading was most active in five-year maturities.
The session was active early, but volume dropped off after midday.
This made Intel the second-most active stock in U.S. trading.
used to describe a company that is selling goods and services or doing business, especially in a particular place:
Whitbread was especially active but several other brewers were also buying at the rate of 20 or 30 a year.
be active in sthThe company is active in a wide range of businesses, including oil, chemicals, and construction.
Over the last ten years, the company has become active in Europe.
working or being used at a particular time:
active accounts/cardholders/customersThe company has more than one million active cardholders, with about 44% of all group sales being made through the card.
active employees/members
The organization releases a weekly survey of the number of active oil and gas drilling rigs in the U.S. and Canada.
IT
relating to programs, etc. that are being used at a particular time:
Click the associated tab in a bar running across the screen, and the selected page opens in the active window.

Examples of active

active
Stories are told of physically active and diet-conscious individuals who find they have high blood cholesterol.
The teachers, as working women who were active in civic affairs, served as role models to the pupils.
She had returned to her active schedule with friends, and volunteering.
Such elections require not only the active participation of political parties to ensure competition and form a government, but also to legitimise the government.
Over the past decade or so, there has been active development of alternative time-frequency representation schemes, independent of computer music research and largely theoretical.
Not only primates and cetaceans, but also other long-lived mammals, like elephants, have females playing active (crucial) post-reproductive roles.
Such sentences with an active sentence construction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data.
One problem is certainly motivation: the language is taught at school in a way that does not encourage active use or involvement.
We have much less information about whether the patients in the trials also had evidence of active psychotic phenomena in addition to any depressive symptoms.
The lower degree of depth-mediated inhibition in no-till may increase the percentage of active seed bank, thereby reducing the amount of older seeds.
Our second test of the development of coping assessed relations between the adolescent trajectories of coping and active, avoidant, and cognitive coping in young adulthood.
Responses determined to be scorable were utterances that had sufficient structure to be deemed full or partial passive sentences or full or partial active sentences.
Thus, this ratio is a performance measure that indicates the value added by active management to the strategic policy.
This led to active lobbying for patient choice of these hospitals.
The presence of active small-scale turbulence appears responsible for the continuing isotropy of the smallest eddies.
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