actingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈæk.tɪŋ/us/ˈæk.tɪŋ/the job of performing in films or plays:
He wants to get into acting.
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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
- act
- act sth out
- amateur theater
- enact
- entrance 1
- go on the stage idiom
- ham
- ham it up
- improvise
- live action
- mime
- offstage
- portray
- prompt
- repertory
- rest
- stage
- stage whisper
- stretch
- variety
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actingadjective
uk/ˈæk.tɪŋ/us/ˈæk.tɪŋ/acting chairman, manager, etc.
someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is not there:
He'll be the acting director until they can appoint a permanent one.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- unpaid
- wilderness
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