act
- noun
- /ækt/
- Formal
- And the Clean Air Act grew out of that.
- pass an act
- legislative act
- provisions of the act
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- This is from the Espionage Act Arrest Kushner.
- But I don't think the Affordable Care Act as such will be OK.
- Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.
- It is called the Credit Card Competition Act, AKA the Big Box bill.
- So the what what Hassan said in Patriot Act is right.
- So I've forgotten what what year the OSTP Act, Authorization Act actually passed.
Examples
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So what are the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act?
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The "no child left behind" act would now hold states accountable for not having students who met minimum education requirements.
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And of course the Climate Change Act even tried to do that.
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There was the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.
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This is the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, the STOCK Act.
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Instead, the Court struck down the act due to the Equal Protection Clause.
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It was the first act to protect consumers.
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In 1985, Parliament amended the act to remove more than 100 years of legislated gender discrimination.
Fiction book (2002) -
As early as 1883, the legislature in Maine passed an act allowing the artificial propagation of lobsters.
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The Environmental Protection Act was essential for regulating pollution in our country.
Synonyms
A written law made by a country's lawmakers that people must follow
A law that a government approves and puts into effect
A law passed by a parliament or congress
Idioms
- Informal
To be organized, prepared, and able to manage tasks and problems
- Offensive
Behave in a very dramatic, demanding way to get special treatment
- Offensive
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
- Offensive
To behave rudely and foolishly in a way that annoys or embarrasses people
- Offensive
To behave in a silly way without thinking when nervous or tired
- Offensive
To wait for someone else to have a problem so you can gain from it
- Offensive
Behave loudly and show off, for example by shouting or flashing money in Britain
- Offensive
To behave loudly and show off to impress other people in an annoying way
- Offensive
Behave in a sad, lonely way that makes you look awkward with other people
- Offensive
Behave in a very rude and thoughtless way that upsets other people
- Offensive
Behave in a rude, annoying, and foolish way toward other people
Compounds
- NSFW
A violent act against ordinary people to frighten others for political, religious or other beliefs
- NSFW
Planned violent action to make people afraid for political, religious or other ideas
- Informal
A situation of managing two or more important things at the same time, like work and family
- Specialized
A natural event like a flood or earthquake that cannot be prevented by people
- UK
A former English law that required crowds to leave when a local official read a formal announcement
- Informal
A situation where a person manages several important tasks at once, often with difficulty
- Formal
A U.S. federal law that punishes organized crime and lets authorities seize money and property
A United States law that requires courts to approve spying on foreign people or groups
A law that puts a paid official stamp on newspapers and legal papers in the American colonies which causes protests
United States law from 1970 used to fight organized crime by giving stronger punishments
A United States law that makes workplaces safer by setting safety rules and making sure employers follow them
- Offensive
A nickname for a law that extends copyright to help large media companies like Disney
- Formal
Former US law that let manufacturers require shops to sell goods at a minimum price
How Broad
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Act comes from the Latin agere, meaning 'to do', so an Act is something formally 'done' by a government or parliament; that's why laws are called Acts.