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- noun The state or condition of being
proactive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Applebee's went apoplectic with proactiveness, declaring that not only would it retrain its entire wait staff that instant, but from now on it would only use single-serve juices.
Boozy Babies and Other Overhyped Panics Lenore Skenazy 2011
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Stressing perseverance, patience, and proactiveness, the Archbishop explained that "we live in a moral universe, where right and wrong matter."
Rahim Kanani: In Conversation With Jeff Skoll, Dr. Paul Farmer, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the 2011 Skoll World Forum Rahim Kanani 2011
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Stressing perseverance, patience, and proactiveness, the Archbishop explained that "we live in a moral universe, where right and wrong matter."
Rahim Kanani: In Conversation With Jeff Skoll, Dr. Paul Farmer, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the 2011 Skoll World Forum Rahim Kanani 2011
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Commitment was defined as the agent's level of engagement and proactiveness.
Designing The Soft Side Of Customer Service Sriram Dasu 2010
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"Given the impossible trinity of achieving monetary policy independence, fixed exchange rate and free capital flow in an open economy, a managed floating exchange rate regime will help enhance the proactiveness and capability of macroeconomic management and the effectiveness of monetary policy, curb inflation and asset bubbles and contain macroeconomic risks," the statement said.
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Again unlike conventional environmentalism, it emphasizes the role of hope and proactiveness, rather than guilt and fear as motivators.
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Again unlike conventional environmentalism, it emphasizes the role of hope and proactiveness, rather than guilt and fear as motivators.
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And the standards that the consumer sets -- the expectations, her own proactiveness and influencing with her purchase decisions, and her own beliefs -- are only going to increase as we move forward, I believe.
William S. Becker: Road to to Copenhagen - Part 4: A New Social Contract 2009
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Again unlike conventional environmentalism, it emphasizes the role of hope and proactiveness, rather than guilt and fear as motivators.
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I man, look at cycling and how that sport has devolved because proactiveness wasn't at the fore back in '99 and 2000, when problems were coming to the surface.
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