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Meanings of acting (actings) in English
Legal term referring to a person temporarily holding a position of office.
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A lower-ranking officer is called upon to replace a senior officer, or fill a position higher than the current rank held.
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Examples for "acting rank"
Examples for "acting rank"
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I am to command our Reserve Battalion, with acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
2
He has the acting rank of captain.
3
A first lieutenant with acting rank of commander takes the order in the gray dawn of a February day.
4
I would like to recommend that he be given the acting rank of Captain.' He looked up from the paper.
5
I will put him in orders, today, as appointed adjutant to the Minho Portuguese regiment, with the acting rank of captain.
Usage of actings in English
1
And truly love doth have strange actings upon the heart.
2
Leave off imprisoning, whipping, and killing, which are but the actings of the curse.
3
No man who believes in a supernatural being can deny the possibility of supernatural actings.
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As to thy dissatisfaction with friends' actings upon that supposed principle- Iwondernot at that.
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This personal communication and consultation with Mr. Adams, he has misremembered into the actings of a sub-committee.
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For surely the disorderly actings of Officers break the peace of the Commonwealth more than any men whatsoever.
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We recognize of course the actings of a noble human heart, and we are right to do so.
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If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!
9
Thence walked home, being ill-satisfied with the present actings of the House, and prefer the other House before this infinitely.
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His natures, offices, sufferings, actings, all he did as Mediator, concur to the quickening and enlivening of a poor dead soul.
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There are some actings of his will, of whose wickedness he is painfully conscious at the very instant of their rush and movement.
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And now I perceive he is to seek again; partly through his sad and heavy burden, and partly through his dissatisfaction with friends' actings.
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Some Pleasures of this class are actings of a low nature, whether congenital as in brutes, or acquired by custom as in low bad men.
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Let not sinners punish others for sin, but let the power of thy reason and righteous action shame and so beat down their unrational actings.
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Mr. Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that knew anything of the Parliament's actings, did salute me with this honour:-Mr.
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The other problem: the longer-acting methods are far more expensive, at first.
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Spanish
Actings through the time