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second acts

second acts is the plural of second act.

Meaning of second act

Noun

second act (plural second acts)

  1. Something a person devotes their later life to, after retiring or quitting a former occupation.
    • After a successful career as a Wall Street stockbroker, Don built houses in Africa for a second act.

Questions about second acts

What is second acts the plural of?
Second acts is the plural of second act.

Words near second acts in the dictionary

  1. Secombes
  2. Seconal
  3. Seconals
  4. second
  5. second act
  6. second acts
  7. Second Adventist
  8. Second Adventists
  9. Second Amendment
  10. Second Amendment sanctuaries
  11. Second Amendment sanctuary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: second acts (page history and authors); second act (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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