act as sth
— phrasal verb with act uk/ækt/us/ækt/verb
B2 to do a particular job, especially one that you do not normally do:
He was asked to act as an adviser on the project.
to have a particular effect:
Some people say that capital punishment acts as a deterrent.
More examples
- Abraham was able to act as interpreter and interlocutor for our group.
- The former president has agreed to act as an intermediary between the government and the rebels.
- The company pays £220 a week for people to act as couriers.
- Several parents acted as chaperones for the school disco.
- She acted as adjudicator in the dispute.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- cabin
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of duty idiom
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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Performing a function