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ac·tion·a·ble ˈakSHənəbəl/ adjective

    1. giving sufficient reason to take legal action.
    
    2. able to be done or acted on; having practical value.
    
Up until about 10 years ago, it was nearly exclusively used in the first sense. The second sense was popularized by pop-business gurus promoting with proactive dynamic enterprise synergistic actionable best-practices...


Yep. I still laugh at the 2nd usage. When I went to school this headline would have meant "Ways to get sued getting startup ideas".




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