acts

Noun

act (countable and uncountable, plural acts)

1. (countable) Something done, a deed.
   • an act of goodwill

   Synonyms:

   deed

2. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
   • The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
3. Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
4. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
   • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87

   Synonyms:

   statute

5. (countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
   • Under current law, employers can drag out the union election process... Under the PRO Act, workers and the NLRB set union election procedures. The employer is not involved.2021 February 4, Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, Lynn Rhinehart, “How the PRO Act restores workers' rights to unionize”, in Economic Policy Institute
6. The process of doing something.
   • He was caught in the act of stealing.

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