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Act on
verb
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Verb
- 1 To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
"The policeman decided to act on the tip from his informant."
- 2 carry further or advance wordnet
- 3 To act accordingly to a (usually sublimated) desire or impulse.
"He keeps telling me about wanting to make a move, but he hasn't worked up to acting on it yet."
- 4 regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice wordnet
- 5 To take action against something.
"World leaders have repeatedly stated that we must act on climate change."
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- 6 To affect something.
"Different drugs act on different parts of our body in many different ways."
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