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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act as husband" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is taking on the role or responsibilities typically associated with being a husband, often in a legal or relational context.
Example: "In this partnership, he agreed to act as husband during the ceremony, despite not being legally married."
Alternatives: "serve as husband" or "function as husband".
Exact(2)
"They act as husband and wife.
On the film set, however, the couple must act as husband and wife.
Similar(56)
Potemkin's actions and her treatment of him later in life fit with this: the two at least acted as husband and wife.
Act as quickly as possible.
Act as much as possible.
It's hard not to think of typically patriarchal power structures in Maura's behaviour, too, firstly in the sense that she used money to paper over the controversy of Josh's child, and also somewhat in the way she leaves Shelly – who interprets the act as her husband abandoning her for a second time.
Emma acted as her husband's first reader and toughest editor.
Florence, who is thwarted in her writing dreams and acts as her husband's secretary, watches his infatuation with despair.
Now that his life and hers had parted ways, he said nothing further on the topic of Qingqing, and naturally he no longer acted as a husband would.
Madhavan, in the film, acted as a husband in a troubled marriage again after Alaipayuthey.
She discovered that she liked having her husband act as a buffer between her and her doctors.
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