action Definition

action
noun

1. The process of doing something.

Example: put ideas into action
2. Something done.
3. Activity, force or energy.

Example: a woman of action
Thesaurus: activity, response, reaction, enterprise, vivacity, vigour, animation, energy, work, industry.
4. A movement or gesture.
5. The working part of a machine, instrument, etc; a mechanism.
6. A battle; fighting.

Example: saw action in Korea
Thesaurus: engagement, sortie, contest, conflict, battle, fight, skirmish.
7. The events of a play, film, etc.

Form: the action
8. colloq
Exciting activity or events going on around one.
Example: get a piece of the action
Form: the action
9. A legal case.

Thesaurus: legal action, lawsuit, claim, litigation, trial, hearing, court case.

Idiom: out of action

Not working.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin actio, from agere to do or drive.