take action

idiom

: 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

The employee claims the organization did not take action to address her concerns about discriminatory conduct. —Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026

Hegseth said in a social media message Monday that the military has started to take action against Kelly, a former astronaut and the husband of Gabby Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman shot in 2011 in an assassination attempt. —Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026

Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Cuba condemned the attack in varying ways and called on the United Nations to seek a peaceful solution and take action, The Associated Press reported. —Phil Helsel, NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026

Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop. —Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for take action

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