acting

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English

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Etymology

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From the verb act.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æktɪŋ

Adjective

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acting (not comparable)

  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.
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Verb

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acting

  1. present participle and gerund of act

Noun

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acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

  1. (countable, now rare) An action or deed.
    • 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth[1], London, Preface:
      [] 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”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10:
      [] 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.
    • 1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276:
      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.
  2. (countable, law) Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
  3. (uncountable) Pretending.
  4. (uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From English acting.

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acting

  1. (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