acting

From the verb act.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æktɪŋ

acting (not comparable)

1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

   The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

   The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.

• pro tem

acting

1. present participle and gerund of act

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

1. (countable, now rare) An action or deed.
   • 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth‎, London, Preface:

     […] 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;

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10:

     […] 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.

   • 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:

     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.

2. (countable, law) Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
3. (uncountable) Pretending.
4. (uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.

• shadow acting

• Tangic

From English acting.

acting

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive, also rarely transitive) to act up; to temporarily assume duties or authorities of another person when they are unable to do their job