acting

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: act‧ing

Verb

Plain form act

Third-person singular acts

Past tense acted

Past participle acted

Present participle acting

1. The present participle of act.
2. An acting director, president, head, etc. is in the position until the regular person returns to the job.

   He was the acting chairperson for the committee when Tim went for surgery.