participant
Children are social actors in their own right, who make their own social, economic, and cultural contribution.
He wrote that the church should not be a political actor.
India has become a major actor in the world.
This structural shift is embodied by the influence of new actors on the global investment stage.
Business must work with government and with all other actors in society to be part of the solution to climate change.

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Taking part and getting involved
all in
along
attendee
be (a) party to somethingidiom
be all over it idiom
concern
engage
go in on something
hat
have a dog in the fightidiom
have a horse in the raceidiom
have skin in the gameidiom
muscle
neck
pitch in
plunge
plunge in/plunge into something
punch above your weightidiom
re-engage
thick

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actor | American Dictionary

actor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæk·tər/(femaleactress, us/ˈæk·trəs/)

actornoun[C] (PERFORM)

a person who plays the part of a character in a movie or play:
The play has a cast of six actors.

Examples of actor

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There are three fields of language planning - status, corpus, and, acquisition - and three types of actors: individuals, communities, and states.
The actors are able to reach common agreement on their preferences and are open to ties with other parties.
The actors not only double up to play different parts, but also perform different roles as entertainers, musicians, and storytellers.
Intellectuals would have to be compared with social actors other than intellectuals and with non-intellectual modes of action (supposing these exist).
Structural connectedness is based on the idea that policy is made within a context of a network of actors and institutions.
In both cases the historical actor becomes a subject, his conceptual world derives from his position in a structural relationship only.
These master actors teach their students the repertoire of their particular genres by having them copy what they do.
Political support by national actors, however, was not sufficient to motivate effective adaptation.
The degree of critical awareness that we believe intelligent international actors should acquire might appear to be a tall order.
What was evident to him was a certain lack of understanding among actors about their obligation to writers and plays of social commitment.
Any genuine research into music education policy needs to unearth the actors' value systems.
Most interestingly, the visual evidence for the third-person actor is coded by the first-person-actor marker added to the verb.
We may, however, expect that a diverse multitude of actors (as pilgrims) would have been present around that day, perhaps even the king.
The actor was performing a 'holding back' or a 'keeping back' that was, paradoxically ('despite himself') propelling him forward.
The first axiom says that either an actor performs a local computation or its extra-logical attributes all remain invariant.
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accomplished actor
He is an accomplishedactor.
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