ACTIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does actionable mean? 

• ACTIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ACTIONABLE has 1 sense:

1. affording grounds for legal action

  Familiarity information: ACTIONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affording grounds for legal action

Context example:

slander is an actionable offense

Similar:

unjust (violating principles of justice)

Derivation:

action (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against)

 Context examples 

Cancer metabolism is clinically actionable, and understanding the lactate pathway could help us find therapeutic targets for lung cancer.

(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I have done nothing actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal constraint.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both of these expressions Mrs. Crupp considered actionable, and had expressed her intention of bringing before a “British Judy”—meaning, it was supposed, the bulwark of our national liberties.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It—it’s not actionable,” he stammered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)