Usually means: Anticipating and initiating action early.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. proactive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. proactive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proactive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. proactive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proactive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Proactive, proactive: Wordnik
  7. proactive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. proactive: Wiktionary
  9. proactive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. proactive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. proactive: Dictionary.com
  12. ProActive, Proactive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. proactive: Rhymezone
  14. proactive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. proactive: Free Dictionary
  16. proactive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Proactive: The Word Detective
  18. proactive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. proactive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proactive: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proactive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See proactives as well.)

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adjective:  Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

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