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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

executável

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /e.ze.kuˈta.vew/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Actionable/ˈæk.ʃən.ə.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos transformar essas ideias em planos executáveis."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Giving sufficient reason to take legal action.

    "The defamatory statements made by the competitor were deemed actionable by the legal team."
  2. 2

    Able to be done or acted on; having practical value or utility.

    "The manager provided actionable feedback that helped the team improve their performance immediately."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'action' (from Old French 'action', ultimately from Latin 'actio', from 'actus' meaning 'a doing') combined with the suffix '-able' (from Latin '-abilis', indicating capability). It entered legal terminology in the late 17th century to describe grounds or offenses upon which a legal action or lawsuit could be brought, and later evolved into general business and organizational usage to mean practical or capable of being acted upon.

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