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acting
English
Etymology
From the verb act.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æk.t??/
Adjective
acting (not comparable)
- 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.
- Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.
Translations
See also
- pro tem
Verb
acting
- present participle of act
Noun
acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)
- (countable, obsolete) An action or deed.
- 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,[1]
- […] 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;
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 10,[2]
- […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings,
- 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,[1]
- (law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
- Pretending.
- (drama) The occupation of an actor.
Translations
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pretending
English
Noun
pretending (usually uncountable, plural pretendings)
- The act of imagining; make-believe
Translations
Verb
pretending
- present participle of pretend
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