Accomplishes: To execute fully.
Adds: Affix or attach; mathematical summation of figures.
Administers: Maintain an established system, process, or program.
Advises: Offer an informed opinion or give specialized information to others. Recommend a course of action.
Analyzes: Identify the elements of a whole and critically examine and relate these component parts separately or in relation to the whole.
Allocates: Assign or apportion for a specific purpose or to a particular person.
Applies: Affix an item or substance to another; to put in use, as in a rule.
Approves: Exercise final and decisive authority, causing action to use money, manpower, material, or equipment.
Arranges: Place in proper order or pattern.
Assembles: Gather from various sources.
Assigns: Specify or designate tasks and duties to be performed by others.
Assists: Help or aid others in the performing of work, where another employee assumes responsibility. Consists of performing portions of assigned work or carrying out details of the total assignment under guidance of another.
Assures: Confirm; make certain of; to state confidently.
Audits (verb): Examine, verify, or correct.
Authorizes: Approve or commit, an act implying subsequent action by others.
Balances: Arrange or prove that the sum of numbers equals another.
Batches: Group items or numbers into a quantity for another operation.
Budgets (verb): Forecast required resources for a program or plan of action.
Calculates: Make mathematical computations.
Checks (verb): Supervise control.
Circulates: Distribute items or information according to plan; move about an area to assist others.
Classifies: Separate into groups in a systematic way.
Closes: Terminate; successfully complete a transaction.
Codes: Convert words or figures into characters or symbols.
Collaborates: Work or act jointly with others.
Collates: Bring together or organize in a predetermined order.
Collects: Gather together, accumulate.
Communicates: Convey information to others, ensuring that the information is received and understood.
Compiles: Put together information or assemble data in a new form.
Composes: Make up; fashion; arrange.
Conducts: Manage or carry on, with emphasis on concept of immediate supervision or personal leadership.
Consolidates: Combine multiple elements into a whole.
Consults: Seek advice or information of, or give expert advice as a professional.
Controls: Direct, regulate, or guide the use of money, methods, equipment, materials, etc. Also, the process of monitoring activities to ensure conformance with planned results.
Coordinates: Regulate, adjust, or direct the related actions of others, or activities or processes, in order to attain desired results.
Copies: Make duplicates of documents; transfer information.
Corrects: Rectify an error; to make right.
Corresponds: Communicate in writing with individuals in a situation in which there is no direct responsibility for servicing, advertising, pricing, negotiating, or selling.
Counsels: Advise.
Creates: Produce through imaginative skill.
Decides: Conclude or settle.
Delegates: Entrust to another person tasks or duties which require exercise of some of the authority of the person originally responsible, as "to delegate an administrative assistant to represent the department at conferences."
Designs: Devise and execute drawings or diagrams showing the features of an object, arrangement or procedure. Does not include preparation of specifications or detailed instructions. Frequently, the function of designing is shared with other, in which case it is more precise to use "design" as a noun, i.e., originate, analyze, endorses, approve, etc., the design of....
Determines: Decide or settle; give direction to; decide the course of.
Develops: Disclose, discover, perfect, or unfold a plan or idea, in detail, gradually. Implies study or experiment unless otherwise stated. When used as "to develop subordinates," see "Trains."
Directs: Govern or control work operations by establishing an implementing objectives, practices, and methods.
Disseminates: Spread information or ideas.
Distributes:Deliver equipment, tools, records, etc., to their proper destination by mail or in person.
Drafts: Write or compose documents in rough form for approval or revision.
Edits: Integrate the component parts of (a publication, written presentation, report, etc.) by cutting, rewriting.
Endorses: Add support to recommendations of others. Implies a willingness to have one's name associated with a proposal or action of another.
Enforces: Compel observance of, or obedience to.
Ensures: Make certain of; guarantee.
Establishes: Install; originate.
Estimates: Forecast future quantities, values, sizes, extents, etc., either on the basis of judgment or calculation. Frequently, estimating is shared with others, in which case it is more precise to use "estimate" as a noun, i.e., originates, analyzes, endorses, approves, etc., estimates of...
Evaluates: Examine and judge; appraise; estimate.
Examines: Scrutinize, analyze, reflect upon.
Executes: Put into effect or carry out methods, plans, etc.
Exercises: Bring to bear or employ actively, as in authority or influence.
Expedites: Speed up the progress of; help along; assist; facilitate, or perform quickly and efficiently.
Facilitates: Make easy or less difficult; help others to come to agreement or learn.
Files: Arrange records in a methodical manner for preservation and reference.
Finds: Locate information, people, or things.
Follows up: Check the progress; verify results.
Forecasts: Predict future events based on specified assumptions.
Formulates: Devise; invent.
Furnishes: Supply, provide, or give.
Gathers: Collect into one place.
Guides: Lead, step by step.
Identifies: Ascertain the nature of definitive characteristics of, or establish the identity of.
Implements: Carry out or fulfill by taking action.
Improves: Make better.
Informs: Communicate knowledge to others.
Initiates: To start; to introduce.
Inspects: Examine materials; equipment, reports, work, etc. to determine quality, suitability for use, etc.
Instructs: Teach, demonstrate, or by other methods impart knowledge to others. Direct that a specific activity be performed. (May include directing how it is to be performed).
Insures: Make sure or certain.
Interprets: Explain to others (orally or in writing) the meaning or significance of something.
Interviews: Question and converse with another person in order to obtain facts or opinions.
Investigates: Uncover facts by systematically finding them, conducting a searching inquiry, and examining various sources.
Locates: Search for and find; job in an appropriate place.
Maintains: Keep in satisfactory condition.
Manages: Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate operation of an organizational unit, with responsibility for the output.
Motivates: Provide with an incentive; impel; incite.
Negotiates: Confer with others to reach an agreement in discussions for which the parameters of the negotiation are not pre-defined by others.
Notifies: Inform; proclaim.
Obtains: Gain possession of something; acquire.
Operates: Use equipment or systems for the purpose for which they were intended.
Orders: Issue a command or instruction; give an order for request to be supplied with something; or put in a methodical and systematic arrangement.
Organizes: Pull or put together into a orderly, functional, structured whole, or, arrange or systematize.
Oversees: Supervise a functioning operation as distinct from supervising people.
Participates: Take part; join with others.
Performs: Carry on an activity to completion; accomplish; execute.
Prepares: Make ready for another purpose.
Processes: Subject an item, information, or substance to a treatment; perform an activity according to a procedure.
Programs (verb): Develop computerized processes using structured languages.
Promotes: Advance employees to higher jobs: advance or foster ideas; or encourage the use of Company equipment or services.
Proposes: Recommend or suggest for consideration or adoption.
Proofreads: Read text and make corrections.
Purchases: Commit use of organizational funds for a specific purpose, either by oral or written contract or by exchange of money for goods or services.
Recommends: Present a matter to another person for action or approval.
Refers: Provide to another person; direct attention; allude to a source.
Releases: Permit publication, dissemination, or remove restrictions.
Represents: Take the place of; act in another person's stead.
Researches (verb): Search for new information and/or knowledge.
Resolves: Make a firm decision about; find a solution to; answer.
Reviews: Consider or examine facts or results for accuracy, completeness, and suitability.
Revises: Change; make new or improve; update.
Screens: Examine closely against standards to separate.
Searches: Looks for.
Selects: Choose that which appears to be best suited for a specific purpose.
Separates: Set apart from others for further use; keep apart.
Solicits: Seek to obtain by persuasion.
Studies: Apply thought to any subject of investigation in order to arrive at the most suitable conclusion.
Submits: Commit something to the consideration or judgment of another.
Summarizes: Present the substance in a condensed form; abstract.
Supervises: Oversee personally or control work performance and conduct of others.
Surveys (verb): Examine or look at in a comprehensive way.
Trains: Teach, demonstrate, or guide others in the performance of assigned work.
Transcribes: Transfer information (words or figures) from one form to another, without changing its substance or nature.
Types: Prepare, using a typewriter, word processor, or computer.
Verifies: Confirm or establish the authenticity of data by examination or other means.
Writes: Form characters or letters or words; fill in using pen or pencil.
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