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actioning

actioning is the present participle and gerund of action.

Meaning of action

Verb

action (third-person singular simple present actions, present participle actioning, simple past and past participle actioned)

  1. (transitive) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
    • ‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’2004, Ros Jay, Richard Templar, “Fast thinking: project”, in Fast Thinking Manager's Manual, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, Fast Thinking Leader, page 276
  2. (archaic, transitive) To initiate a legal action against someone.
    • ‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’1856, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché: or Sam Slick in England, new revised edition, Stringer & Townsend, Chapter XLVII: The Horse Stealer; or All Trades Have Tricks But Our Own, page 270

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Noun

actioning (countable and uncountable, plural actionings)

  1. An instance of taking action.
    • Now, wisdom to the other can materialize, for example, in terms of the interrogatings, actionings, and understandings that will take place beyond 'a set of self-serving narratives' facilitating the deployment of epistemic power […]2022, Pierre Legrand, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought, page 223

Forms of actioning

pluralactionings

Questions about actioning

What does actioning mean?
Actioning means an instance of taking action.
What is actioning the present participle and gerund of?
Actioning is the present participle and gerund of action.
What part of speech is actioning?
Actioning is a noun.
What is the plural of actioning?
The plural of actioning is actionings.

Words near actioning in the dictionary

  1. actioner
  2. actioners
  3. actiones populares
  4. actionfest
  5. actionfests
  6. actioning
  7. actionings
  8. actionism
  9. actionisms
  10. actionist
  11. actionists

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