MAN OF ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does man of action mean? 

• MAN OF ACTION (noun)
  The noun MAN OF ACTION has 1 sense:

1. someone inclined to act first and think later

  Familiarity information: MAN OF ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN OF ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone inclined to act first and think later

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

man of action; man of deeds

Hypernyms ("man of action" is a kind of...):

actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)

 Context examples 

“And the French?” asked Alleyne, to whom the archer's light gossip had all the relish that the words of the man of action have for the recluse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But you are a man of action—you are a man of affairs.

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

But the novice was a strategist as well as a man of action.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. McKee was asleep on a chair with his fists clenched in his lap, like a photograph of a man of action.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)