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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
actionable
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 disturbance to the residents is not actionable.
▪ It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable perse, and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties.
▪ The assertion of exclusive rights will, however, be actionable in tort.
▪ The police kept up their enquiries and one or two likely candidates rose to the surface, but nothing was clearly actionable.
▪ These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable.
▪ This then is not a true obligation for performance, because once the promise becomes actionable performance is no longer possible.
▪ Thus there was no actionable official policy or custom.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actionable

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
actionable

1590s; from action + -able.

Wiktionary
actionable

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.

WordNet
actionable

adj. affording grounds for legal action; "slander is an actionable offense"

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.