==Direct:
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- late 14c., from L. directus "straight," pp. of dirigere "set straight"
==Action: ==
- Mid-14c., "cause or grounds for a lawsuit," from Anglo-Fr. accioun, O.Fr. accion (12c.) "action, lawsuit, case," from L. actionem(nom. actio) "a putting in motion; a performing, doing," noun of action from pp. stem of agere "to do". Sense of "something done, an act, deed" is late 14c. Meaning "fighting" is from c.1600. As a film director's command, it is attested from 1923. Meaning "excitement" is recorded from 1968. Phrase actions speak louder than words is attested from 1731.
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==Direct Action: ==
- The strategic use of immediately effective acts, such as strikes, demonstrations, or sabotage, to achieve a political or social end.
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- (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) action such as strikes or civil disobedience, employed by organized labour or other groups to obtain demands from an employer, government, etc.
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
- Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets. Direct action differs from conventional offensive actions in the level of physical and political risk, operational techniques, and the degree of discriminate and precise use of force to achieve specific objectives. Also called DA. See also special operations; special operations forces.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
- A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
- civil disobedience - a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination); "Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience"
- job action - a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands
- nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance - peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
- recusancy - refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England
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