Actionable vs Instructional - What's the difference?
actionable | instructional |
(legal) Affording grounds for legal action.
* 1891 ,
(management) Capable of being articulated as an action item or a set of action items.
Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.
A book, film, etc. intended to instruct.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 18, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=Mommy’s Dearest, work=New York Times
, passage=On legitimate days off, during the summer, Klam received poolside instructionals in monied femininity from Marcia and her three sisters ? “the Jewish Gang of Four.” }}
As adjectives the difference between actionable and instructional
is that actionable is (legal) affording grounds for legal action while instructional is intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.As a noun instructional is
a book, film, etc intended to instruct.actionable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm sure it's not good of me to write that he's a lush, but is it actionable ?
- Clearly the libelous book is actionable , but I'm not commenting on anything to do with legal issues.
- “It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes,” said he, “but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law now, and not me. 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.
- One of our objectives in the next cycle is to have reviewed the documentation and determine the feasibility of our project plan schedule. Is that actionable ? Can we determine any deliverables for this?
instructional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The manual might have been instructional had anybody actually taken the time to read it.
Noun
(en noun)citation