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"text": "The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.",
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},
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"text": "The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.",
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"Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job."
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"word": "cis-acting"
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"word": "pro tem"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàilǐ",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "代理"
},
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
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{
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "väliaikainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "virkaa toimittava"
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{
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "intérimaire"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "par intérim"
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"roman": "movaleobis šemsrulebeli",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოვალეობის შემსრულებელი"
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოვალეობების შემსრულებელი"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "mokmedi",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოქმედი"
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
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"word": "geschäftsführend"
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"roman": "kāryakārī",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "કાર્યકારી"
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"code": "ga",
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"alt": "だいりの",
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "代理の"
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"roman": "badalāya",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "ബദലായ"
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{
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"word": "en funciones"
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"roman": "rák-sǎa-gaan",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "รักษาการ"
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"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
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"ref": "1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface",
"text": "[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;",
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"ref": "1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10",
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"ref": "1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276",
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"(countable, now rare) An action or deed."
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"word": "演技"
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"word": "histriōnia"
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"word": "അഭിനയം"
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"sense": "occupation of an actor",
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"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "encenação"
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"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
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"word": "actorie"
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"text": "The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.",
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],
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[
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"authority",
"authority"
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},
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàilǐ",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "代理"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dài-",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "代-"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "portempa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "väliaikainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "virkaa toimittava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "intérimaire"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "par intérim"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "movaleobis šemsrulebeli",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოვალეობის შემსრულებელი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "movaleobebis šemsrulebeli",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოვალეობების შემსრულებელი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mokmedi",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "მოქმედი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "amtierend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "stellvertretend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "geschäftsführend"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "kāryakārī",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "કાર્યકારી"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "gníomhach"
},
{
"alt": "だいりの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dairi-no",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "代理の"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "badalāya",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "ബദലായ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "taupua"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "p.o."
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pełniący obowiązki"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pełniąca obowiązki"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "interino"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "temporário"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispolnjájuščij objázannosti",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "исполня́ющий обя́занности"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "i.o.",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "и.о."
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vrío",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ври́о"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"roman": "vršilac dužnosti",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вршилац дужности"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "úradujúci"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "interino"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "en funciones"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "suplente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "tillförordnad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "tf"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "ställföreträdande"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "stf"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "rák-sǎa-gaan",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"word": "รักษาการ"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vykonuvač obovʺjazkiv",
"sense": "temporarily assuming the duties or authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "виконувач обов'язків"
}
],
"word": "acting"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns",
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"2": "act"
},
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"name": "m"
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{
"word": "act"
}
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"present participle and gerund of act"
],
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"act",
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]
],
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"gerund",
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"present"
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}
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{
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"tags": [
"US"
],
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}
],
"word": "acting"
}
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"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns",
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"word": "shadow acting"
}
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}
],
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{
"form": "actings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"1": "~"
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface",
"text": "[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10",
"text": "[…] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276",
"text": "Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.",
"type": "quotation"
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"An action or deed."
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],
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"deed",
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]
],
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"(countable, now rare) An action or deed."
],
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"archaic",
"countable"
]
},
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"categories": [
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],
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"Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action."
],
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[
"law",
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],
[
"party",
"party"
],
[
"deed",
"deed#English"
],
[
"action",
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]
],
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"(countable, law) Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action."
],
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"countable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Pretending."
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[
"Pretending",
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],
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"(uncountable) Pretending."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
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"categories": [
"English uncountable nouns",
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],
"glosses": [
"The occupation of an actor."
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"drama",
"drama"
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[
"actor",
"actor"
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],
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"(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"broadcasting",
"drama",
"dramaturgy",
"entertainment",
"film",
"lifestyle",
"media",
"television",
"theater"
]
}
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æktɪŋ"
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"tags": [
"US"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tamṯīl",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "تَمْثِيل"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "derasanutʿyun",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "դերասանություն"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "actuació"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǎnjì",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "演技"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "aktorado"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "näytteleminen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schauspielkunst"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hupókrisis",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ὑπόκρισις"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "színjátszás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "színészi játék"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "alakítás"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "akting"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aisteoireacht"
},
{
"alt": "えんぎ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "engi",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "演技"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "pamagarti"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "pamagarte"
},
{
"alt": "演技",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yeon'gi",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "연기"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "oyunculuk",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "оюнчулук"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "histriōnia"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "gluma",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глума"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "abhinayaṁ",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "അഭിനയം"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bâzigari",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "بازیگری"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "aktorstwo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"feminine"
],
"word": "aktorszczyzna"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "atuação"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "encenação"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "actorie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "aktjórstvo",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "актёрство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "aktjórskoje iskússtvo",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "актёрское иску́сство"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "igranje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "actuación"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "skådespeleri"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "occupation of an actor",
"word": "oyunculuk"
}
],
"word": "acting"
}
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