Remain "active" meaning the applications is running (has a little up arrow under the icon) or is just in the task bar?
If just in the task bar then that is a Mac feature. If you don't want it there then click on the icon, select option and uncheck "keep in dock" - or just click and hold and drag it to the desktop and it will go poof...
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