take action

phrase

: to do something : to act in order to get a particular result

The committee is ready to take action.

Examples of take action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At their September meeting, Vice Chair Mark Robinson urged UC leadership to take action. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026

People within the companies care very much and want to take action. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

But a steady enrollment decline and projections of fewer students in the future forced the district to take action. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026

People will soon be able to text with their dot, which can take action on a user’s behalf using a separate machine in the cloud. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for take action

• benefaction
• counteraction
• interaction
• liquefaction
• putrefaction
• rarefaction
• satisfaction
• stupefaction
• tumefaction
• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction