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How to pronounce action in Dutch?

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Type Words
Synonyms military action
Type of group action
Has types engagement, conflict, resistance, battle, fight, defence, defense, defensive measure, ew, saber rattling, blockade, police action, warfare, encirclement, war, electronic warfare, sortie, sally, sabre rattling, amphibious landing


he saw action in Korea.
Type Words
Synonyms action at law, legal action
Type of proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
Has types criminal prosecution, custody case, prosecution, test case, counterclaim, lis pendens, antitrust case, test suit, civil action
Type Words
Synonyms action mechanism
Type of mechanism
Has types movement, piano action, gunlock, slide action, pump action, firing mechanism


the piano had a very stiff action.
Type Words
Synonyms litigate, process, sue
Type of challenge
Has types expedite
Verb group litigate
Derivation actionable


She actioned the company for discrimination.
Type Words
Synonyms accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill
Type of effect, complete, effectuate, set up, finish
Has types discharge, perform, get over, run, complete, consummate, do, dispatch
Verb group follow out, put through, implement, follow up, carry out, go through with, follow through


He actioned the operation.
Type Words
Synonyms activeness, activity
Type of state
Has types eruption, behaviour, overdrive, busyness, swing, eructation, extravasation, hum, play, agency, behavior, operation
Derivation act


he is out of action.
Type Words
Synonyms activity, natural action, natural process
Type of physical process, process
Has types absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, capture, cataphoresis, centrifugation, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, chromatography, clotting, coagulation, concretion, condensation, convection, curdling, curing, decay, demagnetisation, demagnetization, desorption, dielectrolysis, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, drift, ecesis, ecological succession, effervescence, electrophoresis, establishment, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow, formation, fossilisation, fossilization, geologic process, geological process, hardening, inactivation, ion exchange, ionisation, ionization, ionophoresis, leach, leaching, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, materialisation, materialization, natural selection, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, phase change, phase transition, physical change, precession of the equinoxes, radiation, release, rigidification, rigidifying, saltation, scattering, selection, sericulture, set, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, solidification, solidifying, sorption, source, state change, stiffening, stimulation, succession, survival, survival of the fittest, synergism, synergy, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification


the action of natural forces.
Type Words
Type of group action


recent federal action undermined the segregationist position.
the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues.
the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves.
Type Words
Type of human activity, human action, act, deed
Has types aggression, saving, economy, emphasizing, employment, destabilization, engagement, selection, destabilisation, execution, exercise, fetch, forbiddance, taking, opposition, option, achievement, thing, performance, transfusion, transgression, pick, pickings, play, playing, bruxism, politeness, vampirism, benignity, prohibition, beatification, reference, accomplishment, res gestae, resistance, arrival, reverence, accentuation, accenting, application, alienation, course of action, course, hostility, inhibition, interaction, jump-start, jumpstart, consultation, kindness, civility, stupefaction, choice, change, swordplay, carrying out, carrying into action
Derivation act


there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions.
Type Words
Type of work


the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds.
gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible.
Type Words
Type of plot


his novels always have a lot of action.
Type Words
Type of drive


a man of action.