The phrase "a definite action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, clear, and unambiguous action that is intended or required.
Example: "In order to achieve our goals, we need to take a definite action towards improving our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a clear action" or "a specific action".
Neither is it shown that the defendants are now taking or about to take any definite action respecting waters bordering on or within the state, save as the commission is about to consider and act on 'various applications from persons in New Jersey' for preliminary permits and licenses to utilize 'navigable waters on the boundary and inland' for the development of water power.
The announcement comes days after the Food Standards Agency was criticised by a committee of MPs for failing to take "definite action" to improve food standards following a Guardian and ITV undercover investigation last year.
Embodied approaches stress the intrinsic connection between sensing and moving but so far did not yet apply this idea to the animal organization itself, taking organisms with extended sensor arrays and definite action capabilities as a starting point.
Various automatic-control safety arrangements assure a definite braking action should some malfunction develop.
The medicinal value of the plants lies in some chemical active substances that produce a definite pharmacological action on biological system.
The medicinal value of plants lies in some chemical substances that produce a definite physiological action on the human body.
The medicinal value of plant is due to the presence of organic/inorganic substances that have a definite physiological action on living organisms.
Medicinal plants are of great importance to the health of individuals and communities because of innate phytochemicals that initiates a definite physiological action on the human body.
Watching Mark Waugh bat a decade ago, I was reminded of Chekhov's remark that "when a man spends the least possible number of movements over some definite action, that is grace".
