Synonym: battle, behavior, performance, reaction. Similar words: reaction, fraction, attraction, take action, interaction, practitioner, transaction, fiction. Meaning: ['ækʃn] n. 1. something done (usually as opposed to something said) 2. the state of being active 3. 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 4. an act by a government body or supranational organization 5. a military engagement 6. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) 7. the series of events that form a plot 8. the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism 9. the trait of being active and energetic and forceful 10. the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field. v. 1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against 2. put in effect.

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(14) There's no denying that quicker action could have saved them.
(15) The rules will be brought into action tomorrow.
(16) Public opinion can force the government into action. Sentencedict.com
(17) His speech was a powerful spur to action.
(18) The newspapers exclaimed against the government's action.
(19) Action may not always bring happines.
(20) Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.
(21) I am sorry I must disapprove your action.
(22) Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
(25) Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. 

(26) Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words. 

(27) Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell 

(29) If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free. 

(30) You can finish the longest road step by step. But you may be unable to finish the shortest road if you have no action of striding.
More similar words: reaction, fraction, attraction, take action, interaction, practitioner, transaction, fiction, auction, section, sanction, function, election, reduction, selection, objection, infection, protection, connection, production, functional, and function, inspection, prediction, collection, projection, distinction, conviction, reflection, destruction.