Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shareholder in a joint-stock company; one who owns actions (see
action , 12) or shares of stock. Also calledactionist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Com.), obsolete A shareholder in joint-stock company.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun business, obsolete A
shareholder in ajoint-stock company .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The HSBC PMI has lagged behind actionary territory since July, giving weaker readings than its competitor PMI released by the Chinese government.
China Manufacturing Index Rebounds Aaron Back 2011
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If allowed to continue the situation could lead to all sorts of political self-promoting elements to take us back a slippery and re-actionary situation with no clarity as to which direction our country is taking.
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If allowed to continue the situation could lead to all sorts of political self-promoting elements to take us back a slippery and re-actionary situation with no clarity as to which direction our country is taking.
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And we know well that the interests of the miners, of the peasants, and of the students are identified with the struggle against re actionary, fascist plots; that the interests of the
26 JULY ANNIVERSARY 1971
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With him it is nothing but dramatic relationship, the actionary tendency of the facts themselves, in nature.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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Today it would be almost impossible to find, in the old re-actionary sense of the word, a Conservative.
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It will take the Afro-American people fully a century to recover what they lost of civil and political equality under the law in the Southern States, as a result of the re-actionary and bloody movement begun in the
The Negro Problem Timothy Thomas Fortune 1892
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They had no arguments to oppose him with, for it was a subject they had never reflected upon; so they complained that he was illiberal, re-actionary, and lacked faith in human nature.
Sketches from Concord and Appledore Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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There were three parties, -- a re-actionary party under _Lycurgus_, a progressive party led by
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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They were not ripe, therefore, for action when we acted, and although many of the young and ardent, who had imbibed the re-actionary spirit in favor of
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