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Definitions of action:

noun: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Example: "There were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
noun: the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
Example: "The action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"
noun: an act by a government body or supranational organization
Example: "Recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"
noun: the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
Example: "The piano had a very stiff action"
noun: the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
Example: "A man of action"
noun: the series of events that form a plot
Example: "His novels always have a lot of action"
noun: the state of being active
Example: "He is out of action"
noun: a military engagement
Example: "He saw action in Korea"
noun: a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
noun: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
Example: "The action of natural forces"
verb: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
Example: "She actioned the company for discrimination"
verb: put in effect
Example: "He actioned the operation"

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to action: (205 results)
Synonyms:
action at law, activeness, activity, legal action, military action, natural action, natural process

Contains:
key

Part of:
gun, keyboard

More general:
act, drive, group action, human action, human activity, judicial proceeding, legal proceeding, mechanism, plot, proceeding, proceedings, process, state

More specific:
absorption, accenting, accomplishment, achievement, acidification, aeration, agency, aggression, antiredeposition, antitrust case, arrival, battle, behavior, behaviour, biological process, blockade, busyness, capture, carrying into action, carrying out, cataphoresis, centrifugation, change, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, choice, chromatography, clotting, coagulation, concretion, condensation, conflict, consultation, convection, counterclaim, course, curdling, custody case, decay, defence, defense, defensive measure, demagnetization, desorption, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, doing, drift, ecesis, ecological succession, economy, effervescence, electronic warfare, electrophoresis, emphasizing, employment, encirclement, engagement, eructation, eruption, establishment, ew, execution, extinction, feedback, fight, filtration, firing mechanism, flocculation, flow, fossilization, fractional process, fractionation, geological process, gunlock, hardening, hire, hiring, hostility, ignition, induction, ion exchange, ionization, kindness, lavation, leach, leaching, lis pendens, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, movement, natural selection, operation, opposition, organic process, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, performance, phase change, phase transition, piano action, pick, picking, play, playing, police action, precession of the equinoxes, pump action, reference, release, resistance, saber rattling, sabre rattling, sally, saving, scattering, selection, sericulture, set, slide action, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, solidification, solidifying, sorption, sortie, state change, stimulation, succession, survival, survival of the fittest, swing, synergism, synergy, taking, temperature change, test case, test suit, thing, transduction, transpiration, vitrification, war, warfare, washing

Antonyms:
inactiveness, inactivity

Often used in the same context:
actions, tion, nation, jackson, mission, affection, drama, fashion, movie, shun, active, blasting, camera, confusion, effort, explosion, manners, mansion, motion, plans, production, rude, solution, subtle, suspense

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