action (335 synonym found)

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accomplished fact
accomplishment
achievement
act
acta
actions
activeness
activism
activity
acts
ad hoc measure
address
adventure
aerial combat
affectation
affray
agency
air
amphibious operations
anagnorisis
angle
answer
architectonics
architecture
argument
armored combat
artifice
atmosphere
automatic control
award
background
ball
battle
battle royal
bearing
behavior
behavior pattern
behavioral norm
behavioral science
big time
blow
brush
bullfight
business
carriage
cascade control
case
catastrophe
cause
cause in court
characterization
clash
clash of arms
clockworks
cockfight
color
combat
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complication
comportment
condemnation
conduct
conflict
consideration
continuity
contrivance
control action
countermove
coup
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culture pattern
custom
dealings
decision
decree
deed
deliverance
demarche
demeanor
denouement
design
determination
development
device
diagnosis
dictum
direction
dodge
dogfight
doing
doings
doom
drive train
driving
dry run
effectiveness
effectuation
effort
electronic control
embroilment
encounter
endeavor
energy
engagement
enterprise
episode
exchange of blows
execution
exertion
expedient
exploit
fable
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falling action
feat
feedback control
fight
fighting
finding
fire fight
fluid operations
folkway
force
fray
fulfillment
fun
fun and games
function
functioning
funmaking
game
gear
gest
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gimmick
go
goings-on
good time
great fun
ground combat
guise
hand
hand-to-hand combat
hand-to-hand fight
handiwork
handling
high old time
high time
house-to-house combat
improvisation
incident
influence
initiative
innards
job
judicial process
jury-rig
jury-rigged expedient
last expedient
last resort
last shift
laughs
lawsuit
legal action
legal case
legal proceedings
legal process
legal remedy
line
litigation
liveliness
local color
logistics
lovely time
machinery
maintien
makeshift
management
maneuver
maneuvers
manipulation
manner
manners
means
measure
mechanism
method
methodology
methods
mien
militancy
military operations
minor operations
mission
modus vivendi
mood
motif
motion
motions
move
movement
movements
moves
mythos
naval combat
observable behavior
occupation
operancy
operation
operations
order
overseas operations
overt act
passage
passage of arms
pattern
performance
performing
peripeteia
picnic
pis aller
pitched battle
plan
play
pleasant time
plot
poise
political activism
port
pose
posture
power
power train
practice
praxis
precedent
presence
procedure
proceeding
proceedings
process
production
prognosis
pronouncement
prosecution
quarrel
reaction
res gestae
resolution
resort
resource
responsibility
rising action
robot control
ruling
rumble
running
running fight
scheme
scramble
scrimmage
scuffle
secondary plot
sentence
servo control
servomechanism
shake-up
shift
shoving match
skirmish
slant
social science
solution
sortie
spirit
sport
staff work
stand-up fight
steering
step
stir
stopgap
story
stratagem
street fight
strength
stroke
stroke of policy
structure
struggle
stunt
style
subject
subplot
suit
suit at law
supervisory control
switch
tactic
tactics
tauromachy
temporary expedient
thematic development
theme
thing
thing done
tone
topic
tour de force
transaction
trick
trump
tug-of-war
turn
tussle
twist
undertaking
verdict
vigor
vim
vitality
war game
war plans
watchworks
way
way of life
ways
wheels
wheels within wheels
work
working
working hypothesis
working proposition
workings
works
Definition of action:

(n) : something done so as to accomplish a purpose; a way of motion or functioning
"knead bread with a rocking action."
(interjection) : demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance
(v) : to act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect
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Definition of action:

(n) : something done so as to accomplish a purpose; a way of motion or functioning
"knead bread with a rocking action."
(interjection) : demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance
(v) : to act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect
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