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Exact Match:

action

something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

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 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"

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"

Synonyms:

• accomplished fact,
• accomplishment,
• achievement,
• act,
• acta,
• actions,
• activeness,
• activism,
• activity,
• acts,
• ad hoc measure,
• address,
• adventure,
• aerial combat,
• affectation,
• affray,
• agency,
• air,
• amphibious operations,
• anagnorisis,
• angle,
• answer,
• architectonics,
• architecture,
• argument,
• armored combat,
• artifice,
• atmosphere,
• automatic control,
• award,
• background,
• ball,
• battle,
• battle royal,
• bearing,
• behavior,
• behavior pattern,
• behavioral norm,
• behavioral science,
• big time,
• blow,
• brush,
• bullfight,
• business,
• carriage,
• cascade control,
• case,
• catastrophe,
• cause,
• cause in court,
• characterization,
• clash,
• clash of arms,
• clockworks,
• cockfight,
• color,
• combat,
• combined operations,
• complication,
• comportment,
• condemnation,
• conduct,
• conflict,
• consideration,
• continuity,
• contrivance,
• control action,
• countermove,
• coup,
• course of action,
• culture pattern,
• custom,
• dealings,
• decision,
• decree,
• deed,
• deliverance,
• demarche,
• demeanor,
• denouement,
• deportment,
• design,
• determination,
• development,
• device,
• diagnosis,
• dictum,
• direction,
• discharge,
• dodge,
• dogfight,
• doing,
• doings,
• doom,
• drive train,
• driving,
• dry run,
• effect,
• effectiveness,
• effectuation,
• effort,
• electronic control,
• embroilment,
• encounter,
• endeavor,
• energy,
• engagement,
• enterprise,
• episode,
• exchange of blows,
• execution,
• exercise,
• exertion,
• expedient,
• exploit,
• fable,
• fait accompli,
• falling action,
• feat,
• feedback control,
• fight,
• fighting,
• finding,
• fire fight,
• fluid operations,
• folkway,
• force,
• fray,
• fulfillment,
• fun,
• fun and games,
• function,
• functioning,
• funmaking,
• game,
• gear,
• gest,
• gestures,
• gimmick,
• go,
• goings-on,
• good time,
• great fun,
• ground combat,
• guise,
• hand,
• hand-to-hand combat,
• hand-to-hand fight,
• handiwork,
• handling,
• high old time,
• high time,
• house-to-house combat,
• improvisation,
• incident,
• influence,
• initiative,
• innards,
• job,
• judicial process,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• laughs,
• lawsuit,
• legal action,
• legal case,
• legal proceedings,
• legal process,
• legal remedy,
• line,
• litigation,
• liveliness,
• local color,
• logistics,
• lovely time,
• machinery,
• maintien,
• makeshift,
• management,
• maneuver,
• maneuvers,
• manipulation,
• manner,
• manners,
• means,
• measure,
• mechanism,
• method,
• methodology,
• methods,
• mien,
• militancy,
• military operations,
• minor operations,
• mission,
• modus vivendi,
• mood,
• motif,
• motion,
• motions,
• move,
• movement,
• movements,
• moves,
• mythos,
• naval combat,
• observable behavior,
• occupation,
• operancy,
• operation,
• operations,
• order,
• overseas operations,
• overt act,
• passage,
• passage of arms,
• pattern,
• performance,
• performing,
• peripeteia,
• picnic,
• pis aller,
• pitched battle,
• plan,
• play,
• pleasant time,
• plot,
• poise,
• political activism,
• port,
• pose,
• posture,
• power,
• power train,
• practice,
• praxis,
• precedent,
• presence,
• procedure,
• proceeding,
• proceedings,
• process,
• production,
• prognosis,
• pronouncement,
• prosecution,
• quarrel,
• reaction,
• recognition,
• remedy,
• res gestae,
• resolution,
• resort,
• resource,
• responsibility,
• rising action,
• robot control,
• ruling,
• rumble,
• running,
• running fight,
• scheme,
• scramble,
• scrimmage,
• scuffle,
• secondary plot,
• sentence,
• servo control,
• servomechanism,
• shake-up,
• shift,
• shoving match,
• skirmish,
• slant,
• social science,
• solution,
• sortie,
• spirit,
• sport,
• staff work,
• stand-up fight,
• steering,
• step,
• stir,
• stopgap,
• story,
• stratagem,
• street fight,
• strength,
• stroke,
• stroke of policy,
• structure,
• struggle,
• stunt,
• style,
• subject,
• subplot,
• suit,
• suit at law,
• supervisory control,
• switch,
• tactic,
• tactics,
• tauromachy,
• temporary expedient,
• thematic development,
• theme,
• thing,
• thing done,
• tone,
• topic,
• tour de force,
• transaction,
• trick,
• trump,
• tug-of-war,
• turn,
• tussle,
• twist,
• undertaking,
• verdict,
• vigor,
• vim,
• vitality,
• war game,
• war plans,
• watchworks,
• way,
• way of life,
• ways,
• wheels,
• wheels within wheels,
• work,
• working,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition,
• workings,
• works