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acting
UK /ˈæk.tɪŋ/ US /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
noun 4adj 1
Definitions
adj
1
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
1
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.
2
Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
3
Pretending.
4
The occupation of an actor.
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