Usually means: Take action based on something.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. act on: Merriam-Webster
  2. act on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. act on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. act on: Vocabulary.com
  5. Act-On: Wordnik
  6. act on: Wiktionary
  7. act on: Dictionary.com
  8. Act-On: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. act on: Rhymezone
  10. act on: FreeDictionary.org
  11. act on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. act on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. act on: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. act on: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. act on: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (act on)

verb:  To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
verb:  To act accordingly to a (usually sublimated) desire or impulse.
verb:  To take action against something.
verb:  (medicine) To affect something.

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