[
UK
/ˈæktɐ/
]
[ US /ˈæktɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈæktɝ/ ]
NOUN
-
a person who acts and gets things done
when you want something done get a doer
he's a principal actor in this affair
he's a miracle worker - a theatrical performer
How To Use actor In A Sentence
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
- All actors have a little free time now and again. Times, Sunday Times
- But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- I didn't know my success was going to be so big and that I would become 'the subtractor', always subtracting six years. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
- The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
- All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
- A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.