Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty; anticipatory.
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- adjective Acting in advance to deal with an expected
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- adjective (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens
- adjective descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
Etymologies
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Examples
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So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a yearlong voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2010
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So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a yearlong voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2010
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So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a yearlong voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2010
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So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality.
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Cayman Airways has introduced what it describes as a proactive operational cost-saving measure to help keep airfares as low as possible for customers.
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This characterization of Vitter being "proactive" is reminiscent of the initial reports when Vitter first disclosed his links to the D.C. Madam.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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This sort of content, the sort that helps people to be proactive, is rare but necessary.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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Apparently the word proactive to Dennis Hastert means wait eleven months then act as soon as you are caught by the media.www. john06.com
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They have presented a declaration of 12,000 pages that did not provide any new evidence, and they need to be active, not to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the word proactive, in order to convince the Security Council through us that they do not have any more weapons of mass destruction, or else if they are there, that they deliver them so that they can be destroyed under our supervision.
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Det Supt Essie Adair, the officer in charge of the operation, said: "This has been a successful overt stage of a long-term proactive investigation involving the PSNI and partner agencies against an organised crime gang which we believe was importing drugs into Northern Ireland."
Rocket News Editor 2010
andrew.simone commented on the word proactive
It is the most hateful of words.
December 7, 2006