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What does proactive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
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The State administrative and political machinery needs to be proactive in infrastructure development.
The key is to be proactive rather than reactive taking a firm stance before the situation gets out of hand.
Merina Salandy-Brown, a media consultant who worked with the BBC for 18 years, said the draft code was reactive rather than proactive.
The longitudinal correlates of proactive and reactive aggression in children also seem to differ.
That has meant that our ability to be proactive, to try to interdict terrorist activities before they struck has been limited.
Such methods would enable dietitians involved in biotechnology education to take a proactive rather than a reactive approach.

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