active

active
ac·tive adj
1: characterized or accomplished by action or effort
2: engaged or participating in action or activity
paying child support but not otherwise an active parent

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

active
I adjective assiduous, at work, busily employed, busily engaged, busy, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, energetic, enterprising, functioning, impiger, in a state of action, in actual process, in operation, in practice, industrious, industrius, navus, operant, operating, performing, sedulous, trenchant, vigorous, working associated concepts: active concealment, active negligence, active participant, active tort feasor, active trust, active wrongdoing, passive negligence, passive tort feasor II index alert (vigilant), conscious (awake), effective (operative), expeditious, fervent, industrious, moving (in motion), operative, potent, rapid, responsive, sedulous, volatile, zealous

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


active
adj.
Doing purposefully; currently in action; the opposite of passive.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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