act as

To serve or perform a job or role, often temporarily. Until Kayla returns from her maternity leave, Sharon will act as lead analyst. You will now act as file clerk and benefits coordinator, and your salary will reflect this change.

act as someone

to perform in the capacity of someone, temporarily or permanently; to serve in some special capacity, possibly temporarily. This is Mr. Smith. He'll act as manager from now on.

See also: act

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

set an example
keep up an act
keep up the act
act (up)on (something)
act on
acting
blow job
keep an act up
keep the act up
in the act of (doing something)

References in periodicals archive

This is the unity that is pointed to in an act as exhibition--I show myself; that is sounded in an act as expression--I announce myself; and that is told in an act as connection--I evoke myself.

That is the power of theater, of poetry, of music, of dance, and that is the power of an act as celebration.

In an act as celebration, I learn that experience is not a bargaining ground, a marketplace of give and get.

Only now (and belatedly, some will say) do I attend to the act as doing something.

Act and word; reflections on the humanist future

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释义	act as act as To serve or perform a job or role, often temporarily. Until Kayla returns from her maternity leave, Sharon will act as lead analyst. You will now act as file clerk and benefits coordinator, and your salary will reflect this change. See also: act Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. act as someone to perform in the capacity of someone, temporarily or permanently; to serve in some special capacity, possibly temporarily. This is Mr. Smith. He'll act as manager from now on. See also: act McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: set an example keep up an act keep up the act act (up)on (something) act on acting blow job keep an act up keep the act up in the act of (doing something) References in periodicals archive This is the unity that is pointed to in an act as exhibition--I show myself; that is sounded in an act as expression--I announce myself; and that is told in an act as connection--I evoke myself. That is the power of theater, of poetry, of music, of dance, and that is the power of an act as celebration. In an act as celebration, I learn that experience is not a bargaining ground, a marketplace of give and get. Only now (and belatedly, some will say) do I attend to the act as doing something. Act and word; reflections on the humanist future
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