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Definition of Possible action
1. Noun. A possible alternative. "Bankruptcy is always a possibility"
Generic synonyms: Alternative, Choice, Option
Specialized synonyms: Possible
Derivative terms: Possible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Possible Action
Literary usage of Possible action
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving by Thomas Prentice Kettell (1865)
"... as if no possible action of Congress could keep up with the fierce impatience
of the public to have the war brought to a successful end. ..."
2. Report of the 1st-22d Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International (1913)
"THE possible action OF CANADA IN THE CAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ADDRESS
OF M. HENRI BOURASSA Up to the present hour, Canada, a mere dependency of ..."
3. Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption by Samuel Dana Horton (1876)
"Duty of Government to provide a good Metallic Currency—Danger of maintaining Gold
Standard—Dangers of restoring Silver—Probable and possible action of ..."
4. Electrical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Hand-book of Useful Data for by Horatio Alvah Foster (1908)
"The liberation of hydrogen at the cathode serv metal from the possible action of
the oxygen. um to protect the ..."
5. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini (1910)
"The former represent the practical necessity of a possible action as means to
something ... Since every practical law represents a possible action as good, ..."
6. Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson by Henry Lee Higginson (1921)
"I may incidentally say that I think that no possible action on railroads would
have as disturbing an effect upon business as action on the tariff at this ..."
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