proact
English
Etymology
pro- + act. Probable back-formation from proactive.
Verb
proact (third-person singular simple present proacts, present participle proacting, simple past and past participle proacted)
- To take action in advance of an expected event
- 1979, Ichak Adizes, How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis, →ISBN, page 88:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- anticipate
- feedforward
Antonyms
- react
Derived terms
- proactor
Related terms
- proactive
- proactivity
Anagrams
- captor, cartop