acting

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/ˈæk.tɪŋ/

noun 4adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

brilliant, excellent, good

bad, poor, wooden

Her performance improved greatly after she stopped using such bad acting techniques in her auditions.

VERB + ACTING

She has been doing acting work in community theater for the past two years.

ACTING + NOUN

career, profession

Definitions

adj

Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.

noun

An action or deed.

[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;

[…] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.

Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.

Pretending.

The occupation of an actor.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the performance of a part or role in a drama

playing
playacting
performing

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

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The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.

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Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.

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[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;

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Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, acting is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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