acting
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the verb act.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
temporarily assuming the duties or authority
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VerbEdit
acting
- present participle of act
NounEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
occupation of an actor
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AnagramsEdit
ChineseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
acting
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive, also rarely transitive) to act up; to temporarily assume duties or authorities of another person when they are unable to do their job