English dictionary · noun

actor

Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.

Meaning and definitions

1. Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
2. Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
3. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.

Connected roots

• ag-

  doing, driving

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These words share a recorded root connection. A shared root is a learning clue; it does not establish every step in a word’s history.

• action

  The effort of performing or doing something.

• active

  Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

• actual

  relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical

• agent

  a person who acts on behalf of another

• react

  to respond to something

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