Actionable

  

The lawyerly definition: "Lawsuit-able."

Like, if you've done something so bad that your customer can sue you, and probably win, or at least twist your arm into paying them a settlement.

Actionable also means just, um...doing something. Like, in business, you can think about a flying car all day long and how cool it'd be to own a business that made them...but until you can make them so they don't crash, you have no actionable sales that can happen. Sorry.

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