Usually means: Performed behavior in specific role.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. acted: Merriam-Webster
  2. acted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. acted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Acted, acted: Wordnik
  5. acted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. acted: Wiktionary
  7. Acted, acted: Dictionary.com
  8. acted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ACTED: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Acted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Acted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. acted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. acted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. acted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. acted: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acted: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. acted: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ACTED: Acronym Finder
  2. acted: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Act)

noun:  (New Zealand politics) ACT New Zealand, a liberal conservative political party in New Zealand
noun:  (countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
noun:  (countable) Something done, a deed.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
noun:  (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
noun:  (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
noun:  (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
noun:  The process of doing something.
noun:  (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
noun:  (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
noun:  (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
noun:  (countable) Any organized activity.
noun:  (countable) A display of behaviour.
noun:  (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
noun:  A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
verb:  (intransitive) To do something.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
verb:  (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
verb:  (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
verb:  (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
verb:  (transitive) To play (a role).
verb:  (transitive) To feign.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
verb:  (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
verb:  (obsolete, Scotland, transitive) To enact; to decree.
noun:  Initialism of Australian Capital Territory, a federal territory of Australia. [A federal territory which is an enclave in southern New South Wales, south-eastern Australia, in which the country's capital, Canberra, is located.]
noun:  Initialism of American College Test.
noun:  Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand
noun:  (uncountable) Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy. [A form of psychological therapy based on acceptance and mindfulness strategies.]
noun:  (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament. [A law which has received assent (royal, presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of a parliament.]
adverb:  (text messaging) Clipping of actually. [(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.]
noun:  Ellipsis of Act of Parliament.
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