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action [n]
 
1)something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: act  act  thing  benignity  accomplishment  alienation  res_gestae  course  interaction  playing  play  arrival  carrying_into_action  choice  change  economy  forbiddance  opposition  bruxism  transfusion  pickings  transgression  aggression  destabilisation  employment  consultation  accenting  beatification  stupefaction 
 
2)the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"
    Synonyms :activeness activity 
    See Also: state  inaction  act  act  active  active  agency  busyness  behavior  eructation  operation  overdrive  play  swing 
 
3)a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
    Synonyms :action_at_law legal_action 
    See Also: legal_proceeding  jurisprudence  antitrust_case  civil_action  counterclaim  custody_case  lis_pendens  criminal_prosecution  test_case 
 
4)an act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: group_action 
 
5)a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea"
    Synonyms :military_action 
    See Also: group_action  armed_forces  amphibious_landing  battle  blockade  defence  electronic_warfare  police_action  resistance  saber_rattling  sally  war 
 
6)a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
    Synonyms :activity natural_action natural_process 
    See Also: process  radiation  absorption  acidification  adiabatic_process  aeration  antiredeposition  capture  capture  centrifugation  chemical_action  chromatography  concretion  condensation  convection  clotting  decay  demagnetisation  desorption  diffusion  disintegration  distillation  drift  effervescence  cataphoresis  ecesis  extinction  extraction  feedback  filtration  flocculation  flow  formation  fossilisation  geologic_process  curing  ignition  inactivation  induction  ion_exchange  ionisation  leach  magnetic_induction  materialisation  nuclear_reaction  opacification  oscillation  oxygenation  pair_creation  phase_change  precession_of_the_equinoxes  release  saltation  scattering  sericulture  sink  soak  softening  sorption  source  rigidification  stimulation  ecological_succession  natural_selection  synergism  temperature_change  transduction  transpiration  vitrification 
 
7)the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: plot 
 
8)the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action"
    Synonyms :action_mechanism 
    See Also: mechanism  gun  keyboard  firing_mechanism  key  movement  piano_action  pump_action 
 
9)the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: drive 
 
10)the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: work 
 
action [v]
 
1)institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
    Synonyms :litigate process sue 
    See Also: challenge  process  judicial_proceeding  case  petitioner  expedite  litigate 
 
2)put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
    Synonyms :accomplish carry_out carry_through execute fulfil fulfill 
    See Also: carry_out  complete  bring_about  fulfillment  carrying_out  accomplishment  get_over  run  consummate  consummate  do  complete 
 



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