acting

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Additional "actings" fill posts at the sub-Cabinet level.

From Fox News • Apr. 9, 2019

White House officials acknowledged that the roster of "actings" was not ideal, saying Trump's haste to make personnel changes, even without establishing succession plans, reflected his experience in the private sector.

From Fox News • Apr. 9, 2019

Light added that "actings" often aren't viewed as having the same level of authority as a Cabinet secretary who has been approved by the Senate.

From Fox News • Mar. 3, 2019

He said the Constitution and Supreme Court interpretations of the founding document show that lawmakers and their staffers who are acting on their behalf cannot be questioned as to their motives or actings.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2014

And when no special "actings" were on hand, and my beautiful shell might have been supposed to be nothing but a shell, the pleasures of my fertile imagination were by no means at an end.

From A Christmas Posy by Crane, Walter