actionable

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You receive stock tips that count -- actionable, timely investment recommendations that are carefully selected with regard to market timing, fundamentals, technicals and economic forces.

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  1. adjective Giving cause for legal action: an actionable statement.
  2. adjective Relating to or being information that allows a decision to be made or action to be taken.

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  • Probably it is actionable, my lawyer will know about that. —  Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 01 - Fer-de-Lance
  • "The unauthorized placement of a pinball machine in a Mel Gibson movie might have technically violated the copyright laws but it is not actionable, a federal judge has ruled." —  Overlawyered
  • You receive stock tips that count -- actionable, timely investment recommendations that are carefully selected with regard to market timing, fundamentals, technicals and economic forces. —  Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • I'd be pretty surprised if Coriell didn't add breast cancer and celiac disease to its list of conditions in the near future: both are actionable, and both have fairly convincing (albeit only weakly predictive) associations with common variants. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Health Compass test, which looks for markers associated with 23 common conditions - including diabetes, prostate cancer, and Alzheimer's disease - that are "actionable," or able to be prevented or detected early. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
 

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  1. from Middle Latin actionabilis, from Latin actio(n-), action: see action.
 

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/ˈækʃənəbl/
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