"thing in action" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "things in action",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "things in action"
      },
      "expansion": "thing in action (plural things in action)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              193,
              208
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1 (formatted)”, in Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025, page 1:",
          "text": "A thing (including a thing that is digital or electronic in nature) is not prevented from being the object of personal property rights merely because it is neither a thing in possession, nor a thing in action.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of chose in action"
      ],
      "id": "en-thing_in_action-en-noun--8ni-jaY",
      "links": [
        [
          "chose in action",
          "chose in action#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "chose in action"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thing in action"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "things in action",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "things in action"
      },
      "expansion": "thing in action (plural things in action)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              193,
              208
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1 (formatted)”, in Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025, page 1:",
          "text": "A thing (including a thing that is digital or electronic in nature) is not prevented from being the object of personal property rights merely because it is neither a thing in possession, nor a thing in action.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of chose in action"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chose in action",
          "chose in action#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "chose in action"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thing in action"
}