Hypertext Webster Gateway: "proactive"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
proactive
adj 1: (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" [ant: {retroactive}]
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
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