单词	inaction
释义	inactionin‧ac‧tion /ɪnˈækʃən/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Continued pollution of the lake shows the state government's inaction. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners. It induces nausea and thereby inaction, since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition: action requires illusion. Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible. Such inaction provides an ideal foil which leaves their assumed image of heterosexuality intact. The forfeiture of self-created lobbies is perhaps the major reason for political inaction. The Treasury postpones a key sale of notes, citing Congressional inaction on lifting the debt limit. They waited there, in Berwick, in a strange state of enforced inaction and suspense. Whatever the cause, the inaction that results is costly. Word family WORD FAMILYnounactaction ≠ inactionactivity ≠ inactivityreactioninteractionoveractingadjectiveactingactive ≠ inactiveverbact ≠ overactadverbactively the fact that someone is not doing anything:  Several newspapers have criticized the president for inaction.
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