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proacted

proacted is the simple past and past participle of proact.

Meaning of proact

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

Questions about proacted

What is proacted the simple past and past participle of?
Proacted is the simple past and past participle of proact.

Words near proacted in the dictionary

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

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