What is the meaning of proactive?

adjective

  • Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently.
    • usage: "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference"
  • 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).
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