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The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2025 February 25, Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, “White House reveals who DOGE acting administrator is”, in CNN:", "text": "Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job." ], "id": "en-acting-en-adj-tbrJiFQR", "links": [ [ "Temporarily", "temporarily#English" ], [ "assuming", "assume" ], [ "duties", "duty" ], [ "authority", "authority" ] ], "related": [ { "word": "cis-acting" }, { "word": "nonacting" }, { "word": "self-acting" }, { "word": "unacting" }, { "word": "pro tem" } ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "translations": [ { "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": 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"word": "acting" } { "derived": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0", "word": "voice acting" } ], "etymology_text": "From the verb act.", "forms": [ { "form": "actings", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "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": "quote" }, { "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": "quote" }, { "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": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An action or deed." ], "id": "en-acting-en-noun-2v-YtkPb", "links": [ [ "action", "action" ], [ "deed", "deed" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(countable, now rare) An action or deed." ], "tags": [ "archaic", "countable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Law", "orig": "en:Law", "parents": [ "Justice", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "25 4 57 5 8 1", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "29 8 44 13 4 2", "kind": "other", 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"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 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kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;", "type": "quote" }, { "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": "quote" }, { "ref": "1974, J. R. 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"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", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "atuação" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "occupation of an actor", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "encenação" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "occupation of an actor", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": 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