I. adjective
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a teaching/acting/sporting career
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Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
acting ability
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Her acting abilities were obvious straightaway.
acting as agents
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We’re acting as agents for Mr Watson.
acting in bad faith
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In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith .
acting suspiciously
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He saw two youths acting suspiciously .
film/acting/directorial etc debut
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His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.
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■ NOUN
capacity
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He had filled the post in an acting capacity since the resignation of Vitaly Masol in October.
career
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His acting career went slowly but definitely downhill.
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It's a back to front way of running an acting career .
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It's understandable that she would want to resume her acting career after having children.
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She was soon to give up her own acting career - which she never took seriously - to - spoil him?
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Savouring her 1,440-vote capture of the Tory marginal, the double Oscar winner said yesterday her acting career was over.
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But attention was expected to centre on Sir Anthony, currently enjoying one of the best periods of his distinguished acting career .
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In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays, and journalism.
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But during her short acting career , Brown was held in high esteem by the theatrical fraternity in Northern Ireland.
head
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Non-Communist becomes acting head of state Krenz quits as unrest fears grow.
president
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Octavio Lepage, the head of the Senate, is now acting president .
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Mrs Hamilton has been appointed acting head of the school until a permanent replacement can be found.
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While Kershaw was in the hospital Saunders became acting chairman.
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His acting successor is the authority's planning director Mr John Harrhy, brother of Gordon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the acting master and matron, and they were not universally popular.
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Under acting captain Neil Fairbrother, they managed 48 overs in the 205 minutes allowed for 55 overs.
II. noun
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Gloria Reuben quit acting to join Tina Turner on stage as a backing singer and dancer.
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You shouldn't take up acting as a career; it's a very risky business.
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But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about.
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Eventually, though, he singles out Celia Johnson's acting followed by Lean's direction.
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Still only sixteen, it looked as if acting would become the career for which Crawford had hoped.
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Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint.
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The acting she did within its framework was almost right.
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The chief acting honours, however, go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal.
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There is some hammy acting , but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.