Action Verbs
The list of action verbs should useful in identifying and defining job functions. Download a printer friendly version.| Accepts Accounts Accumulates Achieves Acknowledges Acquires Activates Acts Adapts Adjusts Administers Adopts Advises Advocates Affirms Aligns Allots Alters Amends Analyzes Answers Anticipates Applies Appoints Appraises Approves Arranges Ascertains Assembles Assesses Assigns Assists Assumes Assures Attaches Attains Attends Audits Awards Balances Batches Budgets Builds Calculates Calls Cancels Certifies Charts Checks Circulates Clarifies Classifies Clears Closes Codes Collaborates Collates Collects Communicates Compares Compiles Completes Complies Composes Computes Concurs Condenses Conducts Confers Confirms Consolidates Constructs Consults Contacts Contributes Controls Converts Conveys Convinces Coordinates Copies Corrects Correlates Corresponds Counsels Creates Debugs Decides Delegates Deletes Delivers Demonstrates Describes Designs Determines Develops Devises Dictates Directs Disciplines Discusses Dispatches Displays Disposes Disseminates Distributes Diverts Drafts Draws |
Edits Elaborates Elects Eliminates Employs Encourages Endorses Engages Enlists Ensures Establishes Estimates Evaluates Examines Exchanges Excludes Executes Exercises Expedites Extends Extracts Facilitates Feeds Files Finalizes Finds Follows up Forecasts Formulates Fosters Functions Furnishes Gathers Generates Governs Guarantees Guides Helps Hires Identifies Implements Imports Improves Indicates Informs Initiates Innovates Inserts Inspects Installs Institutes Instructs Integrates Interprets Interviews Inventories Invents Investigates Invests Issues Itemizes Joins Justifies Keeps Leads Lends Lets Lists Loads Locates Looks up Maintains Makes Manages Maps Markets Matches Mediates Merges Models Modifies Monitors Motivates Moves Names Negates Negotiates Neutralizes Notifies Nullifies Observes Obtains Occupies Omits Opens Operates Opposes Organizes Orients Originates Oversees Participates Performs Permits Persuades Pinpoints Places Plans |
Posts Practices Predicts Prepares Prescribes Presents Preserves Prevents Prices Proceeds Processes Procures Produces Programs Projects Promotes Proposes Provides Pulls Purchases Qualifies Quantifies Questions Rates Reads Receives Recommends Reconciles Reconstructs Records Recruits Rectifies Reduces Refers Refines Registers Reinforces Rejects Releases Remits Removes Renders Represents Reports Requisitions Rescinds Researches Responds Restricts Retrieves Reviews Revises version Routes Salvages Satisfies Scans Schedules Screens Searches Secures Selects Sells Sends Serves Services Signs Simplifies Solicits Solves Sorts Specifies Spends Standardizes Stimulates Structures Studies Submits Summarizes Supervises Supplements Supplies Surveys Synthesizes Systematizes Tabulates Takes Tenders Tends Tests Totals Traces Trades Trains Transacts Transcribes Translates Transmits Turns Types Uncovers Understands Updates Utilizes Verifies Weighs Withholds Withstand |
