ACTIVATE	Set up or formally introduce with necessary personnel or equipment.
ACCEPT	Give admittance or approval to.
ACCUMULATE	Increase gradually in quantity or number.
ACQUIRE	Come into possession or control of an item or items.
ADAPT	Modify or change to fit specific or new situations.
ADMINISTER	Manage or direct.  (Generally requires some additional explanation to show specific detail.) See manage.
ADVISE	Offer an informed opinion or give specialized information to others.
AID	Provide with what is useful or necessary for achieving an end.
ANALYZE	Identify the elements of a whole and critically examine and relate these component parts separately and/or in relation to the whole.
ALLOCATE	Assign or apportion for a specific purpose or to a particular person.
APPOINT	To set officially, arrange.
APPRAISE	Judge as to quality; compare critically with established standards.
APPROVE	Exercise final and decisive authority, causing action to use money, manpower, materials, or equipment.
ASSEMBLE	Gather from various sources.
ARRANGE	To make preparations for,  to plan.
ASSIGN	Specify or designate tasks and duties to be performed by others.
AUTHORIZE	Approve or commit an act implying subsequent action by others.
BUY	Acquire possession, ownership or rights to the use of services, items.
CHECK	Inspect, evaluate, or investigate work, report.
COLLECT	Gather or exact information or materials from a number of persons or sources.
COMMIT	Pledge or assign to a particular course of action.
COMPILE	Put together information or assemble data in a new form.
CONDUCT	Manage or carry on, with emphasis on concept of immediate supervision or personal leadership.
CONSULT	Consider, asking advice or requesting opinion of.
CONTROL	Direct, regulate, or guide the use of money, methods, equipment, and materials.  Also, the process of monitoring activities to ensure conformance with planned results.
COOPERATE	Act jointly with others. Act or work with others to obtain a mutual benefit.
COORDINATE	Regulate, adjust or direct the related actions of others in order to attain desired results.
COUNSEL	Advise or consult.
CREATE	Produce through imaginative skill.
DECIDE	To select a course of action.
DELETE	Eliminate or wipe out.
DELEGATE	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."
DELIVER	Send or bring a desired object.
DETERMINE	To fix conclusively, regulate.  To decide by choice of alternatives.
DEVELOP	Disclose, discover, perfect, or unfold a plan or idea, in detail, gradually.  Implies study and/or experiment unless otherwise stated.  When used as "to develop subordinates", see Train.
DEVISE	Form in the mind by combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts.
DIRECT	Govern or control work operations by establishing the implementing objectives, practices and methods.
ENCOURAGE	Give help, inspire or pay patronage to.
ENFORCE	To effect or gain by force. To carry out effectively.
ESTABLISH	To institute permanently by enactment or agreement.
ESTIMATE	Forecast future quantities, values, sizes, extents, etc., either on the basis of judgment or calculations.  Frequently, estimating is shared with others, in which case it is more precise to use "estimate" as a noun, and to state the job's function in relation thereto, i.e., originates, analyzes, endorses, approves, etc., estimates of...
EXCHANGE	Give and receive reciprocally.
EXECUTE	Put into effect or carry out methods, plans, etc.
EXPEDIATE	Accelerate the process or progress of a plan, idea.
EXPLAIN	Make plain or understandable.
FORECAST	Predict future events based on specified assumptions.
FORWARD	Send goods or information onward.
FURNISH	Provide or equip with what is needed.
GATHER	Bring together or collect parts of a group.
GET	Obtain or receive.
GIVE	Grant or yield to another.
GUIDE	Direct, supervise, influence or superintend the training of people.
IMPLEMENT	Carry out or fulfill by taking action.
IMPROVE	Make better.
INFORM	Communicate knowledge to others.
INITIATE	Set going or introduce.
INQUIRE	Ask or search into.
INSPECT	Examine materials, equipment, reports, work, etc., to determine quality, suitability for use, etc.
INSTRUCT	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.
INTERPRET	Explain to others (orally or in writing) the meaning or significance of something.
INVESTIGATE	Uncover facts by systematically finding them, conducting a search, and examining various sources.
ISSUE	Make available through distribution.
KEEP	Preserve or maintain in a good and orderly condition.
MAIL	Send by postal system.
MAINTAIN	Keep in satisfactory condition.
MANAGE	Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate operation of an organizational unit, with responsibility for the output.
MOTIVATE	Provide incentive or drive.
NEGOTIATE	Confer with others to reach an agreement.
NOTIFY	Give notice or a report on an occurrence or information.
OBTAIN	Gain or possess.
ORDER	Arrange or command to come to a specified place or decision.
ORGANIZE	To set up an administrative structure for.  To arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
ORIGINATE	Begin or initiate.
OVERSEE	Supervise a function or operation as distinct from supervising people.
PARTICIPATE	To take part or have a share in a project, group.
PICK UP	Accept for the purpose of delivery or payment.
PLAN	To design or plot a scheme or project  by means or method devised for doing something to achieve an end.
PREVENT	Keep from happening or holding back.
PROCURE	Get possession or obtain by particular care and effort.
PROPOSE	Recommend or suggest for consideration or adoption.
PROTECT	Maintain status or integrity of project, idea.
PULL	Demand or obtain advantage by use of exertion or influence.
PURCHASE	Gain or acquire by labor, money.
RECALL	Call back or cancel.
RECEIVE	Come into possession of or acquire an item, idea.
RECOMMEND	Present a matter to another person for action or approval.
REJECT	To refuse to accept, consider or submit to.
REQUIRE	To ask for by right and authority, request.
RESEARCH	Specific inquiry involving prolonged and critical investigation, having for its aim the study of new facts and their interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions or theories that may be affected by newly discovered factors, or the practical application of such new or revised conclusions.  Example:  Technical research to develop new products for the company.
RETURN	Go back in thought or action.  Give an official account to a superior.
REVIEW	Consider or examine facts or results for accuracy, completeness and suitability.
SELECT	Chose that which appears to be best suited for a specific purpose.
SERVE	Comply with the commands and demands of a boss, group.
SHOW	Give indication or record of.
SPECIFY	State precisely or in detail, or name explicitly.  Frequently, the function of specifying is shared with others, in which case it is more precise to use the noun "specification" and state a job's function in relation thereto, i.e., originates, analyzes, endorses approves, etc. specifications for...
SHOW	Propose or mention an idea as workable or desirable.
STOP	Keep from carrying out a proposed action.
STUDY	Apply thought to any subject of investigation in order to arrive at the most suitable conclusion.
SUPERVISE	Personally oversee or control work performance and conduct of others, where there is opportunity for control or inspection of work performed.
TRAIN	Teach, demonstrate, or guide others in the performance of assigned work.

 
 
 

RECEIVE	Come into possession of or acquire an item, idea.
RECRUIT	Increase numbers of a group or bring in new members.
RENDER	Deliver or hand down.
REQUEST	Ask for a favor, privilege, item.
REPORT	Give an account or make a written summary or statement.
SECURE	Put beyond hazard or receive lasting control.
SELL	Give up property in exchange for money.
SEND	Deliver or dispatch as means of communication or delivery.
SOLICIT	To make a petition or request for services, money.
SUBMIT	Yield or surrender to authority.
SUPPLY	Make materials available for use.
TAKE	Get or seize into possession.
TRANSFER	Pass over from one person to another.
WITHDRAW	Back away or remove.
DESIGN	Create or fashion a plan or idea.
FORMULATE	Put into a systemized expression or statement.
PROJECT	Plan, figure, or estimate for the future.
SCHEDULE	Appoint a fixed time.
EVALUATE	Determine or fix a value.
EXAMINE	Inspect closely or test.
IDENTIFY	Conceive or establish a position.
MEASURE	Control or regulate by a standard or in measured amounts.
RATE	Estimate or determine the relative value, rank, or amount of an item.
READ	To study or interpret the meaning of a text.
RESOLVE	Deal with a problem, dilemma successfully.
SOLVE	Find a solution, answer, or explanation for a question or problem.
SUMMARIZE	To tell and reduce a story, idea.
SURVEY	Examine a condition, situation or value.
TEST	Assign a value or evaluate an item by a given test.
WEIGH	Merit consideration as to importance.
AUDIT	Perform a formal examination into a company’s formal accounts.
CHECK	To proof or review for errors.
CONSERVE	Slow or block the progress of something.
EDIT	Alter, adapt or refine a written text, concept, or idea.
ENSURE	Make sure, certain, or safe.
GUARANTEE	Undertake to answer for debt and default or promise security.
REGULATE	Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate.
RESTRICT	Place under restriction as to use or distribution.
VERIFY	Confirm or substantiate by oath, law, or other documentation.
COMPARE	To examine characteristics to discover similarities or differences.
CONSIDER	To observe or think about with regard to taking some action.
CRITICIZE	To evaluate and judge merits or faults.
EVALUATE	Appraise, to determine value, condition, significance or worth.
EXAMINE	Investigate in order to determine progress, fitness or knowledge.
IDENTIFY	The act of proving identity.
INTERVIEW	Obtain information through questioning.
INSTALL	To set up for use.
MAIL	To send by the postal service.
DISTRIBUTE	Deliver or hand out to several or many.
FURTHUR	Promote or advance.
PROVIDE	To supply support to meet a need, make available.
ASCERTAIN	Find out or learn with certainty.