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action

/ˈækʃən/ interjection C2
  1. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance. · The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.
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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 Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2
Then he was hit with a bullet from an elephant gun in the action near Diamond Hill outside Pretoria.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · B2
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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 29 · B2

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