inactionin‧ac‧tion /ɪnˈækʃən/ noun [uncountable] - Continued pollution of the lake shows the state government's inaction.
- In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.
- It induces nausea and thereby inaction, since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition: action requires illusion.
- Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible.
- Such inaction provides an ideal foil which leaves their assumed image of heterosexuality intact.
- The forfeiture of self-created lobbies is perhaps the major reason for political inaction.
- The Treasury postpones a key sale of notes, citing Congressional inaction on lifting the debt limit.
- They waited there, in Berwick, in a strange state of enforced inaction and suspense.
- Whatever the cause, the inaction that results is costly.
nounactaction ≠ inactionactivity ≠ inactivityreactioninteractionoveractingadjectiveactingactive ≠ inactiveverbact ≠ overactadverbactively