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actionable

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Word definitions for actionable in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The judge ruled that Newman's comments were not an actionable offense. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Criminal Law is actionable officially by the prosecution of offenders. ▪ In those circumstances I hold that the undoubted ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s; from action + -able .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. affording grounds for legal action; "slander is an actionable offense"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context legal English) Affording grounds for legal action. 2 That can be acted on; that can be used as the basis for taking action.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actionable \Ac"tion*a*ble\, a. [Cf. LL. actionabilis. See Action .] That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

Usage examples of actionable.

After a few years that archival section is going to begin filling up with some great actionable concepts, worked out in relatively valid detail.

New York had been looked into in May and June, but there was no actionable intelligence.

Then the United States would no longer have been dependent on proxies to gather actionable intelligence.

The former did its own frantic sifting--something CIA automatically does, looking for that actionable bit of gold.

There was still a kernel of distrust--the United States would not show the Saudis its sigint cables--and actionable intelligence it passed along often vanished when it reached the salons of the royal family, whose interests were often inscrutably complex.

His disclosure of a fact which, if made public, would inflict great injury on Miss Fraser and her programme, the network, and Starlite, was irresponsible and inexcusable, and certainly actionable.

As slander was gradually wrested from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts through tort actions seeking redress for temporal damage rather than spiritual offense, slander became actionable only with proof or the reasonable assumption of special damage of a pecuniary character.

It shall be illegal and actionable against any citizen, resident, business entity, educational institution or government to make any attempt to limit that right on the part of a citizen.

If he didn't have a head for business, that wasn't an actionable offense as far as we were concerned.