English-Spanish translations for proactive

• precavida
• preventiva
  Debemos adoptar una actitud preventiva y proactiva a este respecto, y eso hace necesaria una estrategia. We need to adopt a preventive and proactive attitude in this respect, and that requires strategy.
  La EEB, el SRAS y la reciente gripe aviar han resaltado, por desgracia, la necesidad de llevar a cabo acciones preventivas coordinadas y activas en el ámbito de la salud. BSE, SARS and the recent avian influenza concerns have all, to our cost, underlined the imperative of having proactive, pre-emptive coordinated action in the area of health.
  Ahora es el momento de la acción, de adoptar medidas en favor de las víctimas, aplicar estrategias proactivas y preventivas y establecer sanciones penales eficaces, proporcionadas y disuasorias. Now is the time to act, to adopt measures in support of the victims, to apply proactive and preventive strategies and to establish effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties.
• proactivo
  Por eso nuestra labor tiene que tener un carácter proactivo. Our work must therefore be proactive in nature.
  No había nada proactivo en la agenda que perfiló. There was nothing proactive in the agenda you outlined.
  Desgraciadamente, el pensamiento proactivo acerca de los derechos humanos es selectivo en la UE. Proactive thinking on human rights is regrettably selective in the EU.

Definition of proactive

• Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

Examples

• We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems

Related words

• approach
• reproach
• approachable
• approaching
• irreproachable
• unapproachable
• irreproachably
• reproachful
• inapproachable