Definition of "act on" []

• To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced. (verb)
• To take action against something. (verb)
• To affect something. (verb)

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• "Granting the stay the government wants would allow it to act on those discharges and also allow it to put recent applicants from gay enlistees in limbo, the group said."
• "Probabiliorism which held that it is not lawful to act on the less safe opinion unless it is more probable than the safe opinion."
• "In late years the system of Compensationism has arisen, which holds that a compensating reason proportionate to the gravity of the law and to the degree of probability in favour of the existence of the raw, is required in order that a person might lawfully act on the less safe opinion."