(management) The risk of employees spending significant effort looking busy with an activity at the expense of measuring progress toward what the activity is ultimately supposed to achieve.

(military) A state in which person in the military performs military duties on a full-time basis, as opposed to reserve, where one only occasionally performs military duties.

The process of attending carefully to what a speaker is saying, involving such techniques as accurately paraphrasing the speaker's remarks.

The real component of the power of an alternating current circuit; the product of the voltage and that part of the current that is in phase with the voltage

A geologic fault which has exhibited seismic activity within a geologically recent time period.

That responds to spoken commands.

plural of active ingredient

plural of hive of activity

(idiomatic) A very busy place.

plural of active front