action
/ˈækʃən/ verb C2- To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
He/she/it actions · Past actioned · Past participle actioned · -ing form actioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- action
- He/she/it
- actions
- Past
- actioned
- Past participle
- actioned
- -ing form
- actioning
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A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is, indeed, an ideal helpmate.
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.
Then he was hit with a bullet from an elephant gun in the action near Diamond Hill outside Pretoria.
But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.
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