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Defenition of the word action

    • Defenition of the word action

      • Legal actД±on that has as a goal to have a judge take a decision.
      • To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
      • Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
      • something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
      • an act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves"
      • the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action"
      • the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action"
      • the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
      • the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"
      • 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
      • a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea"
      • a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
      • the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"
      • an act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union actio
      • put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
      • institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
      • something done (usually as opposed to something said)
      • the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
      • a military engagement
      • an act by a government body or supranational organization
      • the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
      • the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
      • the series of events that form a plot
      • a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
      • the state of being active
      • put in effect
      • institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

    Synonyms for the word action

      • accomplish
      • accomplishment
      • achievement
      • act
      • action at law
      • action mechanism
      • activeness
      • activity
      • battle
      • carry out
      • carry through
      • case
      • charge
      • clash
      • combat
      • conflict
      • court case
      • deed
      • dogfight
      • encounter
      • engagement
      • execute
      • exploit
      • feat
      • fighting
      • fulfil
      • fulfill
      • lawsuit
      • legal action
      • litigate
      • military action
      • natural action
      • natural process
      • proceedings
      • process
      • prosecution
      • raid
      • skirmish
      • stroke
      • sue
      • suit
      • war
      • warfare

    Similar words in the action

      • action
      • action's
      • actionable
      • actioned
      • actioning
      • actions

    Meronymys for the word action

      • gun
      • key
      • keyboard

    Hyponyms for the word action

      • absorption
      • accenting
      • accentuation
      • accomplishment
      • achievement
      • acidification
      • adiabatic process
      • aeration
      • agency
      • aggression
      • alienation
      • amphibious landing
      • antiredeposition
      • antitrust case
      • application
      • arrival
      • battle
      • beatification
      • behavior
      • behaviour
      • benignity
      • blockade
      • bruxism
      • busyness
      • capture
      • carrying into action
      • carrying out
      • cataphoresis
      • centrifugation
      • change
      • chemical action
      • chemical change
      • chemical process
      • choice
      • chromatography
      • civil action
      • civility
      • clotting
      • coagulation
      • complete
      • concretion
      • condensation
      • conflict
      • consultation
      • consummate
      • convection
      • counterclaim
      • course
      • course of action
      • criminal prosecution
      • curdling
      • curing
      • custody case
      • decay
      • defence
      • defense
      • defensive measure
      • demagnetisation
      • demagnetization
      • desorption
      • destabilisation
      • destabilization
      • dielectrolysis
      • diffusion
      • discharge
      • disintegration
      • dispatch
      • dissolution
      • distillation
      • distillment
      • do
      • drift
      • ecesis
      • ecological succession
      • economy
      • effervescence
      • electronic warfare
      • electrophoresis
      • emphasizing
      • employment
      • encirclement
      • engagement
      • eructation
      • eruption
      • establishment
      • EW
      • execution
      • expedite
      • extinction
      • extraction
      • extravasation
      • feedback
      • fetch
      • fight
      • filtration
      • firing mechanism
      • flocculation
      • flow
      • forbiddance
      • formation
      • fossilisation
      • fossilization
      • geologic process
      • geological process
      • get over
      • gunlock
      • hardening
      • hostility
      • hum
      • ignition
      • inactivation
      • induction
      • inhibition
      • interaction
      • ion exchange
      • ionisation
      • ionization
      • ionophoresis
      • jump-start
      • jumpstart
      • kindness
      • leach
      • leaching
      • lis pendens
      • magnetic induction
      • magnetisation
      • magnetization
      • materialisation
      • materialization
      • movement
      • natural selection
      • nuclear reaction
      • opacification
      • operation
      • opposition
      • option
      • oscillation
      • overdrive
      • oxygenation
      • pair creation
      • pair formation
      • pair production
      • perform
      • performance
      • phase change
      • phase transition
      • physical change
      • piano action
      • pick
      • pickings
      • play
      • playing
      • police action
      • politeness
      • precession of the equinoxes
      • prohibition
      • prosecution
      • pump action
      • radiation
      • reference
      • release
      • res gestae
      • resistance
      • reverence
      • rigidification
      • rigidifying
      • run
      • saber rattling
      • sabre rattling
      • sally
      • saltation
      • saving
      • scattering
      • selection
      • sericulture
      • set
      • sink
      • slide action
      • soak
      • soakage
      • soaking
      • softening
      • solidification
      • solidifying
      • sorption
      • sortie
      • source
      • state change
      • stiffening
      • stimulation
      • stupefaction
      • succession
      • survival
      • survival of the fittest
      • swing
      • swordplay
      • synergism
      • synergy
      • taking
      • temperature change
      • test case
      • test suit
      • thing
      • transduction
      • transfusion
      • transgression
      • transpiration
      • vampirism
      • vitrification
      • war
      • warfare

    Hypernyms for the word action

      • act
      • bring about
      • challenge
      • complete
      • deed
      • drive
      • effect
      • effectuate
      • finish
      • group action
      • human action
      • human activity
      • judicial proceeding
      • legal proceeding
      • mechanism
      • physical process
      • plot
      • proceeding
      • proceedings
      • process
      • set up
      • state
      • work

    Antonyms for the word action

      • cut
      • inaction
      • inactiveness
      • inactivity

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