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actionable

/ˈækʃnəbl/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Medicine adjective

Describing information or a recommendation that is specific enough for the receiver to act on directly.

Keep the recommendation actionable — say exactly what you want and by when.

Topic: Handover & SBAR in Medical English

Law adjective

Giving sufficient grounds to sustain a lawsuit.

Mere insulting words, without more, were not actionable as defamation.

Similar: litigable

Topic: Tort in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More medicine words: Handover & SBAR