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発音

• IPA: /ˈæk.tɪŋ/
• 韻: -æktɪŋ

形容詞

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.

   • 2025 February 25, Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, “White House reveals who DOGE acting administrator is”, in CNN‎:

     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.

関連する語

参考

• pro tem

動詞

acting

1. present participle and gerund of act
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:acting.

名詞

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.

派生語

• acting charades
• voice acting

アナグラム

• Tangic