Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
present participle and gerund of act
An action or deed.
[…] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
From act + -ing.
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Pretending.