Associations to the word «Proactive»

Wiktionary

PROACTIVE, adjective. Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

Dictionary definition

PROACTIVE, adjective. Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference".
PROACTIVE, 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.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky