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) The rules will be brought into action tomorrow.
(15) Public opinion can force the government into action.
(16) His speech was a powerful spur to action. Sentencedict.com
(17) The newspapers exclaimed against the government's action.
(18) Action may not always bring happines.
(19) Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.
(20) I am sorry I must disapprove your action.
(21) His bad action was scorned by the public.
(22) Remedial action must be taken now.
(23) Prison officers have decided to take industrial action.
(26) Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
(27) Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
(28) Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
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.