proactive
/prəʊˈaktɪv
/adjective
(Of a person or action) creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened: employers must take a proactive approach to equal pay...
- With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people?
- This seems to be the cue for the proactive consumer to start interrogating different suppliers.
- Today, he was as proactive and involved as captain as he has ever been.
Derivatives
proaction
- How do people intentionally recruit the functional circuitry of forethought, proaction, intention, aspiration, self-appraisal, and self-reflection?
proactivity
- The report says there is a need for more proactivity in relation to sectors where there may be a chemical or biological product being traded outside the EU.
- So I think the real nub of the problem is that you have not got HR focus and HR proactivity to cause these changes to happen, and it is just like a melee.
- His reputation from his municipal politics days guarantees real proactivity.
Origin
1930s: from pro-2 (denoting earlier occurrence), on the pattern of reactive.