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reactive

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reactive
adopting a short-sighted or stop-gap approach by responding to problems only as they arise instead of being proactive
symptomatic
to treat the immediate symptoms of a problem rather than addressing the underlying root cause

Frequency

Written text
0.176 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)