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inaction

/ɪnˈækʃən/ sustantivo C1

En español: inacción

  1. Lack of action or activity or labor (countable, uncountable) · The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior.

Plural inactions

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“You can imagine with what eagerness I listened to him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 6 · B2
Things had indeed been very slow with us, and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that my companion’s brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 99 · C1
That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
The Valley of Fear, p. 19 · C1
He paced restlessly about our sitting-room in a fever of suppressed energy, biting his nails, tapping the furniture, and chafing against inaction.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 1 · B2

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