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Definition: Proactive |
ProactiveAdjective1. (psychology) 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". 2. (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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: retroactive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Proactive |
| Specialty definitions using "proactive": Computer Emergency Response Team. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | We must, therefore, develop improved, proactive, laboratory-based surveillance systems that can provide early warning of an impending dengue epidemic. (references) | |
Business | The port equipment industry in Thailand is an oligopoly industry, with less than 10 proactive local suppliers competing in the market. (references) | |
Children | South Africa | According to the report, girls "are confronted with levels of sexual violence and sexual harassment in schools that impede their access to education on equal terms with male students." The report stated that the Government was working to improve its responses to domestic and sexual violence, but recommended "a more proactive, coordinated, and system-wide response." There was no reported action by year's end. (references) |
Economic History | Djibouti | As a victim of past international terrorist attacks, President Ismail Omar Guelleh took a very proactive position among Arab League members to support coalition efforts. (references) |
The Bahamas | The Bahamian Government also has adopted a proactive approach to courting foreign investors and has conducted major investment missions to the Far East, Europe, Latin America, and Canada. (references) | |
Minorities | Sweden | The Government continued to take proactive steps to combat anti-Semitism by increasing awareness of Nazi crimes and the Holocaust. (references) |
Trade | Moldova | As a private commercial bank, Victoriabank appears to have been the most proactive in supporting the small industry, retail, and food industry of Moldova. (references) |
Israel | BIRD often plays a proactive role in bringing together potential U.S. and Israeli strategic partners. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Fred Thompson | That very well could be the case, because part of what we've got to do, and I think really kind of the add-on to what I just said, is that we have got to be proactive in some areas. |
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| "Proactive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.90% of the time. "Proactive" is used about 183 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.9% | 170 | 23,898 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.1% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 183 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Proactive Sports Group P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "proactive": proactive GSM subscriber identity module ♦ Proactive Inhibition ♦ proactive SIM. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "proactive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 積極 (active, energetic, positive, vigorous), 前摄. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | politique volontariste (proactive policy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 積極的 (active, positive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せっきょくてき (active, positive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oactivepray активный (active, dynamic, in action, militant), прогрессивный (innovative, onward, progressive). (various references) SIM proactivo (proactive GSM subscriber identity module, proactive SIM), módulo de identificación de abonado GSM proactivo (proactive GSM subscriber identity module, proactive SIM). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Proactive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poactive, preactive, proact, proactiv, proaktiv, proative, procative, proective, progative, protctive, provactive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "proactive" (pronounced prō"a"ktiv) |
| 5 | -a" k t i v | active, attractive, hyperactive, inactive, interactive, overactive, radioactive, reactive, refractive, retroactive, unattractive. |
| 4 | -k t i v | addictive, adjective, affective, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, perspective, photoconductive, predictive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, reconstructive, reflective, reproductive, respective, restrictive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: operatic. | |
-2 letters: apricot, aprotic, captive, ectopia, erotica, evictor, overact, overapt, overtip, paretic, parotic, picrate, private. | |
-3 letters: active, aortic, atopic, avocet, capote, captor, carpet, cartop, cavort, coater, copier, copter, corvet, covert, erotic, octave, opiate, pavior, picaro, pirate, poetic, preact, privet, protea, protei, toecap, tropic, vector, viator, victor, voicer. | |
-4 letters: actor, aiver, aport, apter, areic, atrip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: evaporitic. | |
+2 letters: comparative, cooperative, corporative, procreative, protractive, provocative. | |
+3 letters: comparatives, cooperatives, overcapacity, overemphatic, prevaricator, privatdocent, provocatives, velociraptor. | |
+4 letters: comparatively, contraceptive, convertiplane, cooperatively, incorporative, prevarication, prevaricators, prevocational, privatdocents, provocatively, reciprocative, uncooperative, velociraptors. | |
+5 letters: contraceptives, contrapositive, convertiplanes, noncooperative, overcapacities, overcapitalize, overcomplicate, overparticular, prevarications. | |
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