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proact

proact verb: to take action in advance of an expected event.

Verb

proact (third-person singular simple present proacts, present participle proacting, simple past and past participle proacted)

  1. To take action in advance of an expected event
    • An (E)-style manager, on the other hand, will proact. He will try to imagine where the ball is going to land and go there and get ready to hit it.1979, Ichak Adizes, How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis, →ISBN, page 88

Synonyms of proact

Antonyms

Forms of proact

third-person singular presentproacts
present participleproacting
past participleproacted
pastproacted

Origin of proact

From pro- + act. Probable back-formation from proactive.

Words formed from proact

  • proactor

Questions about proact

What does proact mean?
Proact means to take action in advance of an expected event.
What part of speech is proact?
Proact is a verb.
What is the past tense of proact?
The past tense of proact is proacted.

Words near proact in the dictionary

  1. proacrosin
  2. proacrosomal
  3. proacrosome
  4. proacrosomes
  5. proacrosomic
  6. proact
  7. proacted
  8. proacting
  9. proaction
  10. proactions
  11. proactive

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