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UK
/ˈæktɪvli/
]
[ US /ˈæktɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈæktɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an active manner
he participated actively in the war
How To Use actively In A Sentence
- We will actively support Britain's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester.
- The Orangery restaurant is not as gorgeous as the rest of the house, partly because it is in a modern extension, but mainly because it is unattractively lit.
- A former president of the Soil Association, Helen has been actively involved in promoting the benefits of organic methods to the farming community.
- The selling may not see strong bids from regular customers because the sector's yield level is unattractively low, said Naoki Tsuchiyama , a market economist at Mizuho Securities. Japanese Yields Rise
- Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement
- Energy is more readily conveyed to the various parts of the smaller mass, and hence the lesser organisms will more actively functionate; and this, as being the urging dynamic attitude, as well as that most generally favourable in the struggle, will multiply and favour such forms of life. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
- This will apply retroactively to former users of the service.
- Custody differs from fund management, where assets are actively invested in stocks and bonds.
- Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things. Times, Sunday Times
- Multimedia is the attempt to make computers behave like television sets, only interactively.