OZDIC

act

noun 8verb 5name 4adv 1

Definitions

name

1

Initialism of the Australian Capital Territory: a federal territory of Australia.

Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.

2

Initialism of American College Test.

3

Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.

4

Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.

noun

1

An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.

2

Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy.

noun

1

Something done, a deed.

an act of goodwill

That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.

2

Actuality.

The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.

3

Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.

4

A product of a legislative body, a statute.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

5

(In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.

Under current law, employers can drag out the union election process... Under the PRO Act, workers and the NLRB set union election procedures. The employer is not involved.

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