Usually means: Perform the role or function.
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  1. act as: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. act as: Vocabulary.com
  3. act as: Dictionary.com
  4. act as: Rhymezone
  5. act as: FreeDictionary.org
  6. act as: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. act as: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. act as: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. act as: Legal dictionary

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  1. act as: Encyclopedia

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  1. act as: Idioms

Definitions from WordNet (act as)

verb:  function as or act like ("This heap of stones will act as a barrier")
verb:  pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind


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