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• Aberrated from standard operating procedure (SOP) in cases that demanded field expediency

(1) bear; continue; endure; go on being; put up with; stomach; take; tolerate

(2) hold; remain; stand fast; stand for

(3) remain with someone; stay

Collocates to: agreements, conditions, laws, norms, rules; resolutions, wishes

(1) acquire; assimilate; attract; consume; digest; endure; engulf; fascinate; imbibe; soak up; sustain; take in; use up

(1) During the recent economic downturn, Boeing absorbed most of the price increases.

(2) draw into oneself; grasp; realize; recognize; take in; understand

(3) become captivated, interested, engaged, or preoccupied in; fascinated

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• Absorbed the work of departments that have been eliminated, doubling my responsibilities

(1) admit; agree; believe; consent; say you will

(2) receive with gladness and approval

(3) receive; take something being offered

(4) bow to; endure; put up with; resign yourself to; tolerate

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• Accepted the responsibilities for all my decisions

(1) acclimatize; accustom yourself; adapt; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

(1) house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up

(2) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat

(3) do a favor or a service for someone

(4) adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get used to; make suitable

(5) allow for; assist; be of service; consider; find ways to help; oblige

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• Accommodated the health, attire, and religious needs of all immigrant workers without a loss of team cohesiveness or productivity

(1) accustom; aware; become familiar with; explain; inform; introduce; know; notify; present; run by; tell

(2) come to know personally

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• Acquainted with proactive leadership and management styles

(1) acclimate; accommodate; adjust; change; conform; fashion; fit; get used to; make suitable; reconcile; square; suit; tailor

(2) make fit, often by modification

(3) cause something to change for the better

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• Adapted working conditions to comply and exceed ADA requirements

(1) accommodate; alter; amend; attune; bend; change; correct; fine-tune; fix; modify; pacify; regulate; resolve; rectify; settle; tune-up; tweak

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• Adjusted hours to accommodate mothers with infant child care issues

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• Aided workers with time off and reimbursement for fees for taking and passing English as a Second Language course.

(1) alleviate; calm; dispel; put to rest; relieve; subside

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• Allayed the fears of immigrant workers by hosting regular immigration rights workshops

(1) align; associate; befriend; confederate; friend; help; league; join; support

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• Allied with local businesses to create networking groups for immigrant workers

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• Assimilated quickly when transferred to our facility in Lima, Peru

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• Augmented fulfillment positions with workers from sheltered workshops

(1) assess; calculate; collate; compare; consider; evaluate; even out; equalize; keep upright; offset; settle; square; stabilize; stay poised; steady; tally; total; weigh; weight up

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• Balanced the needs of workers with aggressive production objectives

(1) add new interests or new activities; begin doing new things

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• Branched out in new endeavors

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• Broadened the diversity of 1,000 employees by work-sharing and cross-training

(1) cooperate; work together

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• Coadjuted worker disputes with one representative elected by worker votes

(1) blend; come together as one; combine; fuse or cause to grow together; join; merge; mingle; mix together different elements or parts; unite

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• Coalesced organization’s research into field leader

(1) act as a team; assist; cooperate; pool resources; team up; work jointly with; work together

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• Collaborated with all union leaders to ensure company HR polices were in union contract specifications

(1) bring together; merge; strengthen; unite

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• Consolidated five manufacturing and assembly operations into one location, making it more convenient for many workers and saving the company $2.5 million annually

(1) associate; calculate or show the reciprocal relation between; come together; bring into mutual relation; correspond; parallel

(1) A person’s race is weakly correlated with his eventual success in life.

(1) branch out; expand; spread out; vary

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• Diversified product selection for 2011 Winter Catalog, resulting in 10 percent increase in sales

(2) clasp or hug in friendship, sociability, affection, or desire

(3) contain; encircle; enclose; perceive to include; surround; take in mentally

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• Embraced diversity as a hiring strategy

(1) The emergency data center imbricated our in-house data center during the blackout.

(1) blend; bring together; federate; merge; solidify; tie; unite

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• Unified global workforce of 13,000 individuals

(1) accumulate; amass; collect; combine; gather together; sum; total; whole

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• Aggregated all customer suggestions into topics for brainstorming sessions

(2) divide a sum of money or resources

Collocates to: for, funds, land, resources, quotas

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• Allocated resources based on strategic value of the request

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• Apportioned interns to engineers based on work assignments

(1) annals; collection; documentation; files; place or keep records in archive; library; store of data

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• Archived project management scope statements

(1) accredit; arrogate; attribute something to someone; assert that something has been caused by someone or something

(1) The error was ascribed to a faulty chip.

Collocates to: attributes, meaning, motives, powers, tendencies, traits, qualities, values

(1) allocate; allot; choose; consign; dispense; dole out; give; hand over; pick; select; transfer

(2) appoint; delegate; designate; detail; name

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• Assigned student interns to departments

(1) appraise; assess; check; count; examine; inspect; review; verify the accounting records of

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• Audited scope statements of projects with results documents

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• Automated enrollment process, ensuring higher levels of student satisfaction

(1) account; coax; compute; consider; deem; determine something; entice; enumerate; figure; persuade; rate

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• Calculated the cost of industrial sales calls

(1) arrange; assort; catalog; categorize; class; distribute into groups; grade; group; list by some order or sequence; organize; sort

Collocates to: advertising, as, by, documents, exposure, information

(1) organize into a system of rules, codes, or principles to make clear and coherent

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• Codified rating system to rank the industry’s more efficient logistics systems

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• Collocated formulas so common key terms could be found by internal search engine

(1) amass; assemble; collect and edit something; compose; gather and put together in an orderly form

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• Compiled copies of project final deliverables for company library

(1) associate; bring into mutual relation; calculate or show the reciprocal relation between; come together; correspond; parallel

(1) The survey data indicated that the two factors were strongly correlated.

(1) retrieval of facts and information from large databases

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• Data mined for analysis online usage and customer interaction data using GM’s preferred statistical package, SAS, and GM’s preferred database software, Oracle SQL

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• Data warehoused using heterogeneous environment of super-sized Oracle clusters, regular databases, Amazon RDS nodes, and Amazon EC2-based map-reduce clusters

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• Databased all OSHA compliance claims

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• Digitized products and production

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• Modeled all proposed marketing plans.

(2) place, arrange, or separate according to some class or category

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• Sorted 14,000 customer files into 6 segmented markets.

(1) add up; chart; count; put facts in a table or column tally; total;

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• Tabulated and summarized results of consumer panel discussions

(1) agree; allow; approach; ascend; attain; come to; comply; conform; consent; enter upon; give assent; grant; succeed to; take over

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• Acceded to subordinates’ significantly higher levels of authority and responsibility in dealing with customers, thus improving customer service, retention, morale, and productivity

(1) to house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up

(2) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat

(3) do a favor or a service for someone

(4) adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get used to; make suitable

(5) allow for; assist; be of service; consider; find ways to help; oblige

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• Accommodated customers by customizing billing due dates

(1) approve; attribute; authorize; credit; endorse; recognize; sanction

(2) certify; supply with credentials or authority

Collocates to: colleges; courses, education, fully; ideas, institutions, programs, schools

(1) attain; buy; come to possess; earn; gain; get; hold; obtain; purchase; receive

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• Acquired and merged US Census data into customer database

(1) activate; arouse to action; motivate; put into motion; start; trigger

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• Actuated employees’ sense of ownership by motivating them to do well by being good

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• Attracted significantly higher numbers of customers to Web site with targeted email

• Attracted high-volume prospects with special promotions

(2) bring together in a common cause or emotion

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• Brought together vendors in regular strategic value chain planning

• Brought together the most talented thought leaders in the field

(1) construct; erect; put up; raise; rear

(2) grow; improve; increase

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• Built added value to Cline firms by focusing on customer-centric approach

• Built and empowered award-winning cohesive teams that consistently achieved high standards of quality and productivity in completive markets

(1) bear the main responsibility for something

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• Carried the water for stronger customer initiatives

(1) develop; encourage; foster; help; nurture; promote; refine; support to tend to; till; work on

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• Cultivated repeat buyers with targeted marketing

(2) carry or bear the weight for; keep from falling, slipping, or dropping

(3) give approval; uphold

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• Supported an ever-growing number of customers seeking cloud solutions

(1) attain; buy; come to possess; earn; gain; get; hold; obtain; purchase; receive

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• Acquired training, knowledge, and experience to serve a project management team leader

(2) be logical; make sense

(3) put figures together to make a total

(4) complement; improve; increase

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• Added four new customers, a new industry, and more than $1 million in revenue

(1) affix; bond; hold; hold fast; glutamate; remain; stick to something; stay

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• Adhered to highest standards for quality

(1) act as judge; listen; mediate; preside over argument; settle

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• Adjudicated disputes between engineers over technical issues

(1) ally; adjust; bring oneself into agreement with; correct; level; parallel; straighten

(2) arrange something in reference to something else

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• Aligned personal objectives with the objectives of the firm

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• Amended field manuals to incorporate new standards

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• Appraised the value of low-mileage luxury automobiles

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• Apprised customers of options of leasing versus buying

(1) accept; agree to; attest; back up; command; commend; endorse; favor; praise; ratify; sanction; support

(2) allow; authorize; consent; grant; pass; sanction

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• Approved all proposals to key accounts

(1) gamut; place in an orderly arrangement; set out for display or use

(2) marshal troops; parade; place an order

Collocates to: about, according, against, around, before, behind, in, on

(1) affirm; allege; aver; avow; claim; contend; declare; emphasize; protest; state strongly; stress

(2) champion; defend; establish; insist upon; maintain; make a claim for; stand up for; support; uphold

(1), (2) The American HQ asserted authority over the European partner firm.

(2) estimate the value, cost, benefit, or worth of

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• Assessed the value of potential acquisitions

(1) assert; aver; avouch; avow; declare earnestly or solemnly; hold; maintain

(1) He asseverated that the mistakes in the report would be corrected.

(1) appraise; assess; check; count; examine; inspect; review; verify the accounting records of

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• Audited Information Technology (IT) infrastructures, maintaining data integrity and operating effectively to achieve the organization’s goals or objectives

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• Authenticated the sealed bids for auction items in excess of $25,000

(1) process as a single unit or batch in automatic data processing

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• Batch processed customer invoices

(1) The cloud computing software was battle tested when our system failed in a blackout.

(1) commence; identify and learn from the best business practices; level point of reference; standard; target

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• Benchmarked annual department results

(1) field test; road test; sample prior to rollout

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• Beta tested all new versions of cloud software

(1) The bifurcated analysis displayed the expected results.

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• Bolstered revenues and profits with constant development of aftermarket products and services

(1) The technology plan bookended our business plan covering today’s needs as well as our projected needs into the next decade.

(1) initiate; manage without assistance; succeed with few resources

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• Bootstrapped new product development during economic downturn

(1) be the reason for; cause

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• Brought about changes in outdated performance measurements

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• Cataloged all design changes

(1) consolidate; bring power of something to the central organization

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• Centralized all regulatory reporting

(1) assure; attest; confirm; testify; verify; vouch; witness

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• Certified Cisco platform designer

(2) chronicle; follow; keep record of; log; monitor; outline; project; record; resister

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• Chartered development of software simulation and modeling methods from vendors

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• Coded medical records, monitoring all government-related coding and billing practices, including NCD, LCD/LMRP, OCE and CCI edit management, payment reconciliation, and financial impact analysis

(1) assemble or collect to compare; bring together; gather; pool; pull together

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• Collated binary search or half-interval search algorithms

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• Configured multiple models of Cisco switches in a VLAN configuration

(1) clear up; correct; eliminate errors or malfunctions; fix; mend; repair; restore; service; sort out

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• Debugged department’s software

(1) characterize; classify; describe; determine or set down boundaries; distinguish; identify; label; term

(2) circumscribe; delimitate; delimit; demarcate; mark out

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• Defined global budgeting, forecasting, revenue, and profitability objectives for 17 international business units

(1) define; demarcate; determine; fix boundaries; restrict; set limits; state clearly

(1) The study’s results were also delimited to the specific instruments used.

Collocates to: area, boundaries, carefully, clearly, spatially, within

Collocates to: area, by, border, boundaries, clearly, sharply, space

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• Deputed by CEO to perform some duties

(2) allocate; indicate; point out; specify

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• Designated point person on design issues

(1) clear; free from entanglements and ties; find solutions to problems; straighten out

(1) Her insights and negotiating skills disentangled the otherwise complicated situation.

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• Imbued with the spirit of “just get it done”

(1) examine; make a remark; monitor; notice; perceive; say; scrutinize; study; survey; view; watch attentively

(1) The marketplace was observed for signs of shifting consumer behavior.

(1) combine and adapt to obtain a particular outcome

(2) arrange or organize surreptitiously to achieve a desired effect

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• Orchestrated companywide get-out-the-vote campaigns, including publicity, civics training, and transportation pools on election day

(1) continue something; repeat something insistently or over and over again

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• Perseverated regardless of obstacles

(1) estimate; expect; forecast; plan; proposal; scheme

(2) extend outward toward something else

(3) cause a light shadow to fall on a surface

(4) attribute an emotion to another person

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• Managed a project involving designing a new toy that became top-selling product for four years

(1) work toward a solution through logical thinking and reason

(1) My ratiocinated approach helped a previously divided staff to accept the new policy as beneficial to the health of the firm and to their job security.

(1) find a solution; settle

(2) provide or find a suitable answer to a problem

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• Solved many design problems

(1) stack strategies, ideas, or plans

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• Stove piped customer suggestions and ideas to have them ready to implement on short notice

(2) improve the efficiency or appearance of; modernize

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• Streamlined accounts receivable system, improving cash flow

(1) The accounts team synchronized the sales, aftermarket activities, billing, warranty program, and follow-up service.

(1) The marketing manager white boarded the brainstorming session.

(1) accent; emphasize; heighten; intensify

(1) My branding plan accentuated the product’s unique benefits in a way that more people could relate.

(2) play up; make more noticeable; stress something

Collocates to: differences, opportunities, positives, shapes

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• Accentuated company’s strategic objectives in the design and writing of the annual report, which won an award from the PR Association

(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake

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• Accomplished all stated goal on time and within budget

(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; perform; pull off; reach; realize

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved the highest performance evaluation ratings

(1) accrue; accumulate; assemble; build up; collect; compile; gather together; hoard; pile up; store up

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• Amassed 75 customer appreciation letters and recommendations

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• Battled for market share

(1) unexpected gain or improvement

(2) new idea

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• Broke through clutter of competition to lead

(1) push back against an aggressive person; stand up against an intrusive or aggressive or assertive verbal assault

(1) In the past, Tom would have just sulked away, but today he bumped the shark and made Phil back down from his pompous position.

(2) fight back against a bully

(2) goal; go through ordeal or trial of courage, strength, will, ideas; obstacle

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• Challenged “this is the way it was always done” thinking

(2) concentrate; focus

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• Challenged outmoded, obsolete methods and suggested progressive, empirical, tested approaches

(2) remove or withdraw gradually

(1) The sales team chipped away at the competition’s lead.

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• Commanded respect by my work ethic, dedication, and personal commitment

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• Competed for top sales honors every year

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• Conducted English as a second language courses for immigrant workers

(1) chip in; come across; come through; donate; exacerbate; give or supply in common with others; kick in; subscribe

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• Contributed 20 percent of the annual sales revenues

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• Convened an idea exchange of the industry’s top thought leaders

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• Disencumbered marketing from the “push” mentality

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• Distributed workload among 20 engineers

(1) allow; authorize; give authority or power to; sanction

(2) make one stronger and more confident, especially in controlling his life and claiming his rights

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• Empowered all staff with authority and responsibility

(1) beat; go beyond; surpass what was expected or thought possible; be more or greater than; outdo

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• Exceeded expectations and quotas of all supervisors

(1) shine; stand out; surpass

(2) be better, greater, or superior to others in the same field, profession, endeavor

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• Excelled in foreign language skills; capable of speaking six languages fluently

(2) create or produce in accordance with an idea or plan

(3) perform as expected; run an instruction or program

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• Executed all responsibilities and duties of a Rotary Fellowship winner

(2) make a legally attested or certified copy or transcript of a document under seal

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• Exemplified professionalism, honesty, and dependability in carrying out duties and responsibilities as treasurer, overseeing annual budget of $2.5 million

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• Exhorted team to work to their strengths

(1) accelerate; hurry up; rush

(2) speed up or make easy the process of or action of

(3) dispatch; send off; issue officially

Collocates to: process, shipping, timetables, treatment, trials

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• Expedited shipping services for customers

(1) bypass others; rapid; speed up

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• Fast-tracked market growth projects

(1) aggressive; arbitrate; insert; intercept; interfere; intermediate; meddle; mediate; unsolicited opinion; offer assistance or presence; put between

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• Interposed an additional barrier between the host and the clients

(2) introduce something; inaugurate; present; reveal; start marketing; unleash; unveil

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• Launched five new business start-ups.

(2) put in delineated order

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• Marshaled 20-person, multidiscipline, cross-functional project management team

(1) make best use of; make as great or as large as possible; raise to the highest possible degree

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• Maximized merit bonus every year

(1) cause; egg on; encourage; incentivize; induce; inspire; provide with a motive; prompt; provoke; stimulate; trigger

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• Motivated staff by focusing on their individual strengths

(1) first to develop new ideas or concepts; lead the way

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• Pioneered concept of using interns

(1) Our foreign subsidiary weighed in on the discussion to shift production back to the US.

(2) aim directly at

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• Zeroed in on highest priority prospects

(1) assimilate; acquire; attract; consume; digest; endure; engulf; fascinate; imbibe; sustain; soak up; take in; use up

(2) draw into oneself; grasp; realize; recognize; take in; understand

(3) become captivated, interested, engaged, or preoccupied in; fascinate

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• Absorbed additional new department, including personnel, budget, and objectives, and led all managers in department productivity gains of prior year

(1) agree; allow; approach; ascend; attain; come to; comply; conform; consent; enter upon; give assent; grant; succeed to; take over

(2) enter upon an office

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• Acceded to the post of president of industry trade association

(1) acclimatize; accustom yourself; adapt; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

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• Acclimated to new roles and responsibilities quickly

(1) house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up

(2) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat

(3) do a favor or a service for someone

(4) adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get used to; make suitable

(5) allow for; assist; be of service; consider; find ways to help; oblige

Collocates to: change, demand, desire, difference, growth, guest, need, request, passengers, schedule, space, special case(s), student

(1) acclimatize to; acquaint; adapt; adjust to; attune to; familiarize; get to know; get used to; habitual; inure

(2) become accustomed to

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• Accustomed to new responsibilities in shortest possible time

(1) acclimate; accommodate; adjust; change; conform; fashion; fit; get used to; make suitable; reconcile; square; suit; tailor

(2) make fit, often by modification

(3) cause something to change for the better

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• Adapted quickly to new routine of the management team from acquiring company

(1) accommodate; alter; amend; attune; bend; change; correct; fine-tune; fix; make change; modify; pacify; regulate; resolve; rectify; settle; tune up; tweak

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• Adjusted to relocation

(1) accord; affirm; concur; consent; get together; grant; harmonize; jibe; match; say yes; square

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• Agreed to serve as leader of new products development team

(2) exchange; serve as a substitute; swap

(3) appear repetitively and regularly in a sequence with something else

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• Alternated with another manager as building fire warden

(1) adjudicate; decide; intercede; judge; mediate; negotiate; pass judgment; referee; settle; sort out

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• Arbitrated disputes between businesses and customers

(1) come together as one; combine; grow together; join; unite

Collocates to: around, groups, to, with

(1) The majority of the members concurred with the president’s remarks.

(1) branch out; expand; spread out; vary

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• Diversified the staff

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• Negotiated multimillion dollar contracts

(1) admit; allow; avow; concede; confess; fess up; grant; own up; recognize

(2) answer; react; reply; respond; return

(3) greet; nod to; salute; wave to

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• Acknowledged by industry association as one of the field’s Top 50 Thought Leaders

(1) acknowledge; affirm; announce; assert; asseverate; avow; confirm; establish; insist; pronounce; state; validate; verify

(2) encourage; support; sustain; uphold

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• Affirmed the strategic objectives of the investors

(1) accredit; arrogate; assert that something has been caused by someone or something; attribute something to someone

Collocates to: attributes, meaning, motives, powers, qualities, tendencies, traits, values

(2) confirm; know for sure; nail down; substantiate; verify

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• Assured intellectual property legal compliance of all software program purchases

(1) certify or witness or swear to

(1) The product claims were attested to by three independent sources.

(1) affirm; assert the truthfulness of something; avow; claim; declare; maintain; profess; state; swear

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• Averred all technological claims in firm’s marketing and promotional materials

(1) assure; attest; confirm; testify; verify; vouch; witness

(1) The team certified that the project was complete.

(2) sell accounts receivables to obtain cash before the due date on the account

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• Factored receivables as stopgap measure to obtain needed cash

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• Freelanced as a photographer

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• Garnered support of Board of Directors for strategic decisions

(1) detach; draw away from; extract; remove; select; separate; take out

(2) abridge; condense; pr[ac]ecis; shorten; take or extract the relevant or important information from; purloin; synopsize; summarize

Collocates to: context, data, information, knowledge, manner, social

{also use in Learn and Professional Demeanor}

(1) consider; ponder; think; use one’s power of mind

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• Cerebrated with industry thought leaders and top management on strategic issues

(1) develop; encourage; foster; help; nurture; promote; refine; support

(2) tend to; till; work on

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• Cultivated network of thought leaders to bounce ideas off

(1) dig; examine; explore; inquire; investigate; look into; research; search

(2) dip into; dive; hunt; plunge; reach; rummage

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• Delved into new technologies

(1) ascertain; be first to learn something; determine; expose; find out; hear; learn; realize, see, or uncover something

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• Discovered new applications for products

(1) educate; enlighten; illuminate; improve; inform; instruct; teach

(2) uplift morally, spiritually, or intellectually

(1), (2) The retreat program edified all who attended.

(1) discipline; edify; impart knowledge; inform; instruct; mentor; teach; train; tutor

(2) develop and train the innate capacities of by schooling or education

(3) provide knowledge in a particular area

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• Educated team so they knew as much as me as about our business

(1) come to conclusion; derive; evoke; solve a problem based on thoughtful consideration of facts

(1) The consulting team deduced from their observations that the firm needed to build its brand.

(2) deduce; draw out; elicit; infer

(3) bring out or develop; elicit from

(1) receive in the mind and retain; soak; steep; take in

(1) Repetition advertising imbibed viewers with slogans, jingles, and themes that were supposed to come into their attention unexpectedly.

(1) construe; explain; present in understandable terms; represent the terms of individual belief or judgment; tell the meaning of

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• Interpreted the impact of all proposed new Federal regulations on the business giving the strategic planning group advanced planning time, thus keeping us ahead of the competition

(1) acclimatize; accustom yourself; adapt; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

(1) It took longer than he thought to become acclimated to New York City social life.

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• Acclimated to leadership role quickly

(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake

(1) The project team accomplished their first milestone on schedule.

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• Accomplished all assigned goals and objectives

(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; reach; perform; pull off; realize

(1) The firm achieved greater success when it began hiring more qualified candidates.

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved highest ratings possible for leadership in employee surveys of job satisfaction

(1) accomplish; acquit yourself; be active; behave; do something; take action; take steps; operate; proceed; react; respond; work

(2) act out; appear in; feign; impersonate; mock; perform; play in; pretend; simulate

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• Acted as interim store manager during search for new manager

(1) make real or actual; realize

(2) fulfill the potential of

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• Actualized the theory and concepts of Transformational Leadership

(1) activate; arouse to action; motivate; put into motion; start; trigger

(1) Toni’s speech actuated the congress to finally act on the bill.

Collocated with: controlled, hydraulically pneumatically, series, valves

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• Actuated employees to do well by being good

(1) allege; bring forward; cite as evidence; lead to; present; put forward

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• Adduced evidence by results that leadership can be conditional and situational

(1) foreshadow; give a general description of something but not the details; obscure; overshadow; predict; prefigure; presage; summarize

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• Adumbrated the principle that in a free market anyone can succeed

{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements, Accountability. Accuracy and Preciseness, Attention to Detail, Creativity, Learn, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, and Self-Manageable}

(1) correct a mistake; improve; make better; tolerate

(1) Phillip ameliorated the issues in the business plan prior to the meeting with the investors.

(2) correct a deficiency or defect; make right a wrong; take action that makes up for one’s negative or improper actions

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• Ameliorated the situation in which field sales had no input to marketing’s lead generation program

(1) consider; dissect; evaluate; examine; explore; interpret; investigate; probe; question; scrutinize; study

(1) Randi analyzed the situation from all positions before making her decision.

Collocates to: analysis, data, findings, results, sample, study

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• Analyzed more data, from a larger more diverse range of sources, in the shortest time possible

(1) apply; an attribute of; be appropriate; be part of; belong; relate to

(1) The importance of good communication skills appertains today as it did 200 years ago.

(1) determine; discover; establish; find out; learn; realize; uncover

(1) He ascertained the problems by careful observation.

(2) find out with certainty

Collocates to: definitely, easily, facts, fully, having

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• Ascertained validity of worker’s claims of unfair practices by supervisors

Collocates to: easily, gradually, readily, thoroughly

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• Assimilated the lessons learned working with veteran managers.

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• Authenticated documents sent by foreign investors

(1) field test; road test; sample prior to rollout

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• Beta tested only products that met my strict functionality tests

(1) bear the main responsibility for something

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• Carried the water for employee benefits

(1) advocate; back; be a winner; campaign for; crusade for; excel; fight for; stand up for; support; uphold

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• Championed the project team members who demonstrated creativity, innovation, and courage

(1) combine; come together as one; grow together; join; unite

Collocated with: around, became, finally, formally into

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• Coalesced geographically diverse collection of 11 individuals into a strong unified team

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• Collected and analyzed data

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• Compared favorably to others who had faced similar situations

(1) create an understandable point out of a concept; interpret something from the abstract

(1) She took on the project and conceptualized the whole thing before committing it to paper.

Collocated with: approach, experience, perception, theories

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• Conceptualized the idea that leadership is situational and conditional

Collocated with: assembly, congress, groups, meeting, officials, people

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• Convoked panels of thought leaders

(1) The new sales manager culled out the weaker performers.

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• Culled vendors and suppliers who did not fit into value chain relationship

(1) come to conclusion; solve a problem based on thoughtful consideration of facts; derive; evoke

(1) They educed that the world was not flat.

(2) deduce; draw out; elicit; infer

(3) bring out or develop

Collocated with: change, evidence, facts, good, order, reason

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• Educed the need to search internally for job candidates

(1) Our auditor emended the forms that incorrectly listed us an LLC.

(2) make scholarly corrections in a text

(1) add to; augment; boost; develop; endow with beauty and elegance; grace

(2) improve the quality or condition of

(3) digitally or electronically improve the quality, tone, pitch, image of photos, recordings

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• Enhanced the efficiency and effectiveness of in-house training

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• Facilitated problem-solving meetings that led to numerous ideas that were adopted

(1) activate; propel someone or something into sudden action; stimulate

(1) The FDC’s action galvanized the drug industry to form a PAC to lobby against the rules.

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• Incentivized employees to continue education with full tuition reimbursement program

(2) introduce something; inaugurate; reveal; present; start marketing; unleash; unveil

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• Launched successful direct mail campaigns in months the experts said are not good for mail campaigns

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• Leveraged employees’ strengths

(2) achieve something; be successful

(3) carry or function

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• Managed multiple assignments, tasks, and responsibilities

(1) The sales team militated against altering the compensation plan.

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• Revamped product training

(2) jump, leap, or jerk in a startled way; make a sudden, involuntary, unexpected movement as if surprised

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• Started intuitional investment consultancy for not-for-profit organizations

• Started small business value chain referral service connecting new business owners with vendors and suppliers seeking to specialize in value chain relationships

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• Systematized common sense into firm’s policies

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• Took charge in crisis situations

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• Troubleshot issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, and downsizing

(1) blend; bring together; federate; merge; tie; solidify; unite

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• Unified the parts of the value chain

(1) Our mangers walked the walk for their employees.

(1) advocate; assist; back; back up; encourage; espouse; foment; help incite; put up to; sanction; support; urge (especially in wrongdoing)

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• Abetted the decision to expand globally

(1) acquire; assimilate; attract; consume; digest; endure; engulf; fascinate; imbibe; inure; sustain; soak up; take in; use up

(2) draw into oneself; grasp; realize; recognize; take in; understand

(3) become captivated, interested, engaged, or preoccupied in; fascinate

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• Absorbed many new products into line

(1) acclimatize; adapt; accustom yourself; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

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• Acclimated easily to most situations

(1) The repair team acclimatized before being transported to the South Pole to do repair work.

(1) accept something as fact or truth; admit; allow; avow; concede; confess; fess up; grant; own up; recognize

(2) answer; react; reply; respond; return

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• Acknowledged thought leader in business planning

(1) acclimate; accommodate; adjust; change; conform; fashion; fit; get used to; make suitable; reconcile; square; suit; tailor

(1) Sandra adapted to her new role quicker than she expected.

(2) make fit, often by modification

(3) cause something to change for the better

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• Adapted to serve under many different leadership styles

(1) correct a mistake; improve; make better; tolerate

(2) correct a deficiency or defect; make right a wrong; take action that makes up for one’s negative or improper actions

(2) The new manual ameliorated for the omission of how to make field repairs.

(1) commence; identify and learn from the best business practices; level point of reference; standard; target

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• Benchmarked specifications for systems implementation

{also use in Intelligence and Professional Demeanor}

(1) consider; ponder; think; use one’s power of mind

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• Cerebrated with industry thought leaders and top management on strategic issues

(1) come together as one; combine; grow together; join; unite

(1) The project management team eventually coalesced around the objectives.

(1) create an understandable point out of a concept; interpret something from the abstract

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• Conceptualized the connection of 27 locations by an intranet

(1) appease; gain the regard or goodwill by good acts; pacify; reconcile; soothe the anger of; win over

(1) They conciliated rather than sought a settlement.

(1) assume; conclude from evidence; conjecture; figure out; hypothesize; infer; posit; presume; reason; suppose; surmise; suspect; work out

(1) The consulting team deduced from its observations that the firm needed to build brand.

(2) trace the course of deviation

(1) dig; examine; explore; inquire; investigate; look into; research; search

(2) dip into; dive; hunt; plunge; reach; rummage

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• Delved into the use of new technologies

(1) educate; enlighten; illuminate; improve; inform; instruct; teach

(2) uplift morally, spiritually, or intellectually

(1), (2) The speaker’s message edified and raised the spirits of everyone in attendance.

(1) discipline; edify; inform; impart knowledge; instruct; mentor; teach; train; tutor

(2) develop and train the innate capacities of by schooling or education

(3) provide knowledge in a particular area

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• Educated the public about nonprofit’s earn revenues

(1) bring about; cause or accomplish something; effect

Collocates to: change, goals, intent, necessity, plans, policy, purpose, resources, standards

(1) receive in the mind and retain; soak; steep; take in

(1) Repetition advertising imbibed viewers with slogans, jingles, and themes that were supposed to come into their attention unexpectedly.

(1) absorb; incorporate; take in

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• Insorbed multidisciplinary knowledge

(2) notice; observe; remark; see; take in

(3) comprehend; feel; realize; sense

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• Perceived to be a thought leader

(1) advocate; assist; back; back up; encourage; espouse; foment; help incite; put up to; sanction; support; urge (especially in wrongdoing)

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• Abetted the decision to expand globally

(1) gather speed; go faster; grow; hurry; increase speed of; pick up the pace; speed up; quicken; rush

(2) cause to occur sooner

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• Accelerated revenues to bottom-line profits

(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake

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• Accomplished shift from small regional to global business

(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; perform; pull off; reach; realize

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved 30 percent market share in highly competitive industry

(1) make real or actual; realize

(2) fulfill the potential of

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• Actualized virtual transactions, giving customers a human contact

(1) accrue; accumulate; assemble; build up; collect; compile; collect; gather together; hoard; pile up; store up

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• Amassed 75 customer appreciation letters and recommendations

(1) visionary thinking; out-of-the-box strategic long-range thinking

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• Blue skied strategic long-term strategy

(1) blandish; coax; entice; flatter; inveigle; soft-soap; sweet-talk; wheedle

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• Cajoled when necessary

(1) persist; put into action; take the most difficult

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• Carried through on promises and plans

(1) adopt a cause or mission with great enthusiasm and motivation; campaign for which one has placed a high priority; emotional drive to achieve something; take risk or stakes

(1) Many volunteers crusaded for their causes.

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• Energized those around me

(1) add to; augment; boost; develop; endow with beauty and elegance; grace

(2) improve the quality or condition of

(3) digitally or electronically improve the quality, tone, pitch, image of photos, recordings

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• Enhanced processes, procedures, and controls of Accounting and Finance Division

(2) bring into play; bring up; cite; quote; state; use

(3) call up; conjure up; evoke; make reference to; refer to; remind of

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• Invoked proactive callbacks of products to protect the brand and customer relations

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• Mobilized industry resources to campaign against anti-online bullying

(1) cause; egg on; encourage; incentivize; induce; inspire; prompt; provide with a motive; provoke; stimulate; trigger

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• Motivated people to achieve their best

(1) do or perform better than expected

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• Overachieved on most tasks

(1) be the first to develop new ideas or concepts; lead the way

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• Pioneered the concept of training network systems engineers in the field

(1) annals; collection; documentation; files; place or keep records in archive; library store of data

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• Archived large email and Internet data sources and multi-table joined information

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• Audio conferenced AA/BS experience as Senior Producer for Fortune 500 accounts

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• Automated processes using SSIS or DTS for all business areas

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• Bar coded scanner IOS and Android for Web applications

(1) process as a single unit or batch in automatic data processing

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• Batch processed SQL scripting

(1) control a function, process, or creation by a computer

(1) The IT department cybernated nearly all office functions.

(1) retrieve facts and information from large databases

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• Date mined for analysis online usage and customer interaction data using GM’s preferred statistical package, SAS, and GM’s preferred database software, Oracle SQL

(1) clear up; correct; eliminate errors or malfunctions; fix; mend; repair; restore; service; sort out

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• Debugged department’s software

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• Drilled down for more information and patterns to data

(1) connect all of one’s computers by software so that content such as photos, graphics, files, and so on are automatically transferred from one to another.

(1) Our remote sales team dropboxed the photos of its small group meetings.

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• E-bartered for services and equipment not in budget

(1) transform an idea into a set of symbols during communications process

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• Encoded customer data in special-purpose binary format

(2) add an electronic digital code to software and data being sent over public network to prevent its unauthorized use

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• Encrypted digital messages for maximum security

(1) process and tools that electronically allow all activities in digital sourcing process

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• E-sourced Six Sigma Promotions

(1) online retail selling and business activities

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• E-tailed high-ticket luxury items

(1) connect with someone online on the social network Facebook

(1) Many of our employees in other offices Facebooked each other to hold their own virtual meeting.

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• Hot desked 100-person office, significantly reducing overhead

(1) Our Web page is hyperlinked to the pages of many of our vendors in our value chain.

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• Micro published the hundreds of versions of field manuals

(1) complex; exchange ideas; interact with others to exchange information and develop contacts; make contacts; meet people; set up; use system of contacts

(2) connect computer hardware in a system designed to support something

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• Networked with a diverse group of contacts

(1) The firm’s annual meeting was Webcasted.

(1) acknowledge or declare approval; applaud; cheer; hail; praise vociferously; sing one’s praises

(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake

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• Accomplished shift from shift operator to supervisor

(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; perform; pull off; reach; realize

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved professional-level certification for Cisco Service Provider

(1) acetify; become active; energize; galvanize; get going; initiate; make active; start; set in motion; set off; stimulate; trigger; turn off

(2) call out militia or military for active duty

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• Activated backup systems during weather emergencies

(1) make real or actual; realize

(2) to fulfill the potential of

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• Actualized the career dreams of interns

(1) correct a mistake; improve; make better; tolerate

(2) correct a deficiency or defect; make right a wrong; take action that makes up for one’s negative or improper actions

(1) advocate; back; be a winner; campaign for; crusade for; excel; fight for; stand up for; support; uphold

(1) Sharon championed the new commission plan for the sales team.

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• Championed development of software simulation and modeling methods to assist marketing in determining customer’s “voice”—procedure is now standard operating procedure

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• Incentivized customer service staff

(1) agree; allow; approach; ascend; attain; come to; comply; conform; consent; enter upon; give assent; grant; succeed to; take over

(1) house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up

(2) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat

(3) do a favor or a service for someone

(4) adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get used to; make suitable

(5) allow for; assist; be of service; consider; find ways to help; oblige

Collocates to: change, demand, desire, difference, growth, guest, need, request, passengers, schedule, space, special case(s), student

(1) admit; allow; avow; concede; confess; fess up; grant; own up; recognize

(2) answer; react; reply; respond; return

(3) greet; nod to; salute; wave to

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• Acknowledged by industry association as one of the field’s Top 50 Thought Leaders

(1) align; associate; befriend; confederate; friend; helper; join; league; support

(2) charm; divert; make laugh or smile; please

(2) friend

(2) join with another person to do things together

(1) appease; gain regard or goodwill by good acts; pacify; reconcile; soothe the anger of; win over

(1) They conciliated rather than sought a settlement.

(1) have compassion; identify with; sympathize; understand

(2) undergo or feel empathy

(2) heighten the intensity of action or effect of

(1) to acclaim; applaud; celebrate; extol; mention; praise; speak well of

(1) cherish; provide extra care and attention in hopes of developing someone or something into full potential

(1) I nurtured my networking contacts.

(1) Our group reached out to them as soon as we knew about their concerns.

(1) bring about harmony and concurrence; cause to conform or agree; make an agreement

(2) bestow on someone

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• Accorded each the respect earned and deserved

(1) accord; affirm; concur; consent; get together; grant; harmonize; jibe; match; say yes; square

(1) Tim agreed to apologize for the insult.

(2) attract; charm; draw; fascinate; grab; interest; please; pull; tempt

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• Appealed to people’s self-interest and needs

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• Applauded those who were deserving

(1) We all agreed that she had atoned with her good deeds.

(1) I complied with the rule and paid the fine.

(1) appease; gain regard or goodwill by good acts; pacify; reconcile; soothe the anger of; win over

(1) They conciliated rather than sought a settlement.

(2) embolden; give courage, hope, and confidence to; hearten

(3) be favorable to; foster; give support to; help

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• Encouraged and praised staff who put forth the effort

(1) The association expiated for the failure to use the donations properly by doubling the amount to the charity the next year.

(1) abet; aid; assist; benefit; change for the better; improve; succor

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• Helped new employees adjust to the corporate culture

(1) He lavished expensive gifts on his top sales people.

(1) communicate something; give one’s portion to another; have in common; use jointly or in common

(2) regard with favor or approval

(3) look with a favorable expression

(2) produce or bear

(3) give up to another; submit; surrender

(4) give way to physical force

(5) willingly give up a right, possession, or privilege

(1) bear; continue; endure; go on being; put up with; stomach; take; tolerate

(2) hold; remain; stand fast; stand for; stay

(3) remain with someone

Collocates to: agreements, conditions, laws, norms, rules; resolutions, wishes

(1) make amends for; pay the penalty for

(1) acclimatize; adapt; accustom yourself; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

(1) admit; allow; avow; concede; confess; fess up; grant; own up; recognize

(2) answer; react; reply; respond; return

(3) greet; nod to; salute; wave to

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• Acknowledged by industry association as one of the field’s Top 50 Thought Leaders

(1) be eloquent; be fluent; express; communicate; convey; be lucid; put into words; state; tell; verbalize

(1) commence; identify and learn from the best business practices; leveled point of reference; standard; target

{also use in Intelligence and Learn}

(1) consider; ponder; think; use one’s power of mind

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• Cerebrated with industry thought leaders and top management on strategic issues

(2) propose options to solve problems, issues, needs gap; propose solutions to client problems

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• Consulted with clients

(2) arbitrate; mediate; preside over; referee

(1) complex; exchange ideas; interact with others to exchange information and develop contacts; make contacts; meet people; set up; use system of contacts

(2) commend; endorse; mention; put in a good word; vouch for

(1) assume the burden or responsibility of

(1) be in front of something; lead; point; take the lead

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• Spearheaded the growth of global catalog business from $200,000 to $1,250,000 annually

(1) bear; continue; endure; go on being; put up with; stomach; take; tolerate

(2) hold; remain; stay; stand fast; stand for

(3) remain with someone; to stay

Collocates to: agreements, conditions, laws, norms, rules; resolutions, wishes

(1) make amends for; pay the penalty for

(1) agree; admit; believe; consent; say you will

(2) receive with gladness and approval

(3) receive; take something being offered

(4) bow to; endure; put up with; resign yourself to; tolerate

(1) approve; attribute; authorize; credit to; endorse; recognize; sanction

(2) certify; supply with credentials or authority

(1) control; deal out; direct; dispense; furnish a benefit; give out; govern; hand out; manage; mete out; order; run; supervise; oversee a process

(1) advance; back; be in favor of; bolster; defend; encourage; promote; sponsor; support

(1) annals; collection; documentation; files; place or keep records in archive; library; store of data

(1) persist; put into action; take the most difficult

(1) assure; attest; confirm; testify; verify; vouch; witness

(1) begin; create; enact; ensconce; found; install; institute; prove; set up; settle; start

(2) make firm; make stable

(3) bring about; cause to happen

(4) settle in an office or position

(5) cause to be accepted or recognized; set up permanently

(6) demonstrate; prove

(1) cover a wide scope of topics; elaborate

(2) add details to an account or an idea

(3) roam or wander freely

(4) speak or write in great detail

(1) continue an action or activity; finish something you have started

(1) carry out; complete an assignment; discharge; execute; exercise; implement; perform; satisfy

(1) impress a belief or idea on someone by repeating it over and over again until the idea is accepted

(2) teach by persistent urging

(3) implant ideas through constant admonishing

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• Justified, sourced, and supervised the installation of $24 million CAD assembly process

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• Led implementation of efficient purchasing and JIT inventory management system

(1) cause or enable something to continue; keep something in good condition; keep up; provide with the necessities for life and existence; support; sustain

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• Maintained perfect record for attendance and punctuality over nine years

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• Perfected prototype design that reduced production time by 20%

(1) continue something; repeat something insistently or over and over again

(1) be steadfast in purpose; continue in some effort or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition; persist

(2) fasten by means of tackle

(3) harness a horse

(4) deal with a difficult person or situation

(5) knock or throw to the ground

(2) establish as a target or goal

(1) accomplish; acquire; actualize; attain; complete; conclude; discharge; dispatch; do; earn; effect; enact; finish; get; manage; obtain; perform; pull off; reach; reach a goal; realize

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved successful conclusion to longest union strike in firm’s history

(1) attain; buy; come to possess; earn; gain; get; hold; obtain; purchase; receive

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• Acquired the skills to work with latest technology

(1) accomplish; acquit yourself; be active; behave; do something; operate; proceed; react; respond; take action; take steps; work

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• Acted as facilitator for work group charged with migrating database to cloud

(1) activate; arouse to action; motivate; put into motion; start; trigger

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• Actuated work rules that improved productivity by 20 percent

(1) field test; sample prior to rollout; road test

(1) unexpected gain or improvement

(2) develop a new idea or concept

(1) add new interests or new activities; begin doing new things

(2) goal; obstacle; ordeal

(1) avoid; dodge; evade; elude; frustrate by surrounding or going around; get around; go around; outwit; skirt; take another route; thwart

(1) campaign for which one has placed a high priority; cause; drive; risk or stakes

(1) research; test; trial

(2) make or conduct an experiment

(3) try something new

(1) be in front of something; lead; point; take the lead

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• Spearheaded three year relaunch and rebranding of legacy product

(1) release repressed emotions by acting out the situation in words, behavior, or imagination

(1) acknowledge or declare approval; applaud; cheer; hail; praise vociferously; sing one’s praises

(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; reach; perform; pull off; realize

(2) succeed in doing something

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• Achieved highest industry certification

(1) advance; back; be in favor of; bolster; defend; encourage; promote; sponsor; support

(1) bear the main responsibility for something

(1) advocate; back; be a winner; campaign for; crusade for; excel; fight for; stand up for; support; uphold

(1) campaign for which one has placed a high priority; cause; drive; risk or stakes

(1) copy; follow; imitate; work or strive to copy something admired

(2) try often by copying or imitating a model

(3) rival successfully

(1) begin; create; enact; ensconce; found; install; institute; prove; set up; settle; start

(2) make firm; make stable

(3) bring about; cause to happen

(4) settle in an office or position

(5) cause to be accepted or recognized; set up permanently

(6) demonstrate; prove

(1) create; encourage; increase; produce

(1) call to action; provoke; stimulate something

(1) be the first to develop new ideas or concepts; lead the way

(2) think or remember something from long past in attempt to connect to current issue or point

(1) bear; continue; endure; go on being; put up with; stomach; take; tolerate

(2) hold; remain; stand fast; stand for; stay

(3) to remain with someone

Collocates to: agreements, conditions, laws, norms, rules; resolutions, wishes

(1) assimilate; acquire; attract; consume; digest; endure; engulf; fascinate; imbibe; soak up; sustain; take in; use up

(2) draw into oneself; grasp; realize; recognize; take in; understand

(3) become captivated, engaged or preoccupied in; fascinated; interested

Résumé bullet points:

• Absorbed the work of departments that have been eliminated, doubling my responsibilities

(1) gather speed; go faster; grow; hurry; increase speed of; pick up the pace; quicken; rush; speed up

(2) cause to occur sooner

(1) accumulate; amass; build up; ensue; increase; mount up

(2) come to one as a gain; amass

(3) accrete; add; grow by addition

(1) admit; allow; avow; concede; confess; fess up; grant; own up; recognize

(2) answer; react; reply; respond; return

(3) greet; nod to; salute; wave to

Résumé bullet points:

• Acknowledged by industry association as one of the field’s Top 50 Thought Leaders

(1) accomplish; acquit yourself; be active; behave; do something; take action; take steps; operate; proceed; react; respond; work

(2) act out; appear in; feign; impersonate; mock; perform; play in; pretend; simulate

(1) direct one’s attention to; discourse; lecture; remark; speak directly to; talk to

(2) deliver; direct; dispatch; forward; mark with a destination; refer

(3) adopt; attend to; concentrate on; deal with; focus on; take up

(1) control; deal out; direct; dispense; furnish a benefit; give out; govern; hand out; manage; mete out; order; run; supervise; oversee a process

Résumé bullet points:

• Administered and proctored online certification exams for national career development training

(1) continue; evolve; forward; further; go ahead; go forward; increase; move ahead; move forward; move on; press forward; press on; proceed; progress

(2) build up; develop; enhance; expand; promote; rise; spread

(1) advance; back; be in favor of; bolster; defend; encourage; promote; sponsor; support

(1) ally; adjust; bring oneself into agreement with; correct; level; parallel; straighten

(2) arrange something in reference to something else

(1) accrue; accumulate; assemble; build up; collect; compile; gather together; hoard; pile up; store up

Résumé bullet points:

• Amassed 75 customer appreciation letters and recommendations

(1) correct a mistake; improve; make better; tolerate

(2) correct a deficiency or defect; make right a wrong; take action that makes up for one’s negative or improper actions

(2) ask for; put in; request

(3) direct; employ; harness; operate; put into operation; use; utilize

(4) put on; rub on; smear; spread over

(5) attach to; fix to; join; stick to

(1) accept; agree to; attest; back up; command; commend; endorse; favor; praise; ratify; sanction; support

(2) allow; authorize; consent; grant; pass; sanction

(1) abet; collaborate; facilitate; help with

(1) initiative; manage without assistance; succeed with few resources

(1) unexpected gain or improvement

(2) new idea

(1) act as a team; assist; cooperate; pool resources; team up; work jointly with; work together

Résumé bullet points:

• Collaborated with training and education providers to ensure courses offered were beneficial to workers

(1) collect and edit something; gather and put together in an orderly form

(1) choate; conclude; be done; entire; finish a task intact; integral; perfect; through; unabridged; uncut; whole; wrap up

Résumé bullet points:

• Completed all major job responsibilities without the need for constant direct supervision, thus helping the manager reallocate her time to be more productive

(1) create; envisage; imagine; invent original idea; picture; visualize

(2) begin life; dream; elaborate; form; make up

(1) be in charge of; be in command; direct; dominate; govern; have influence or power over; manage; organize; oversee; rule; run

(1) bring together; combine; direct; harmonize; manage; match up; organize; synchronize; work together

(1) develop; encourage; foster; help; nurture; promote; refine; support

(2) tend to; till; work on

(2) make known gradually

Résumé bullet points:

• Developed first multimedia in-house sales operation with one person to cover two state territories previously covered by three outside sales reps; increased sales by 25 percent, increased retention of customers by 15 percent, and lowered costs by 50 percent

(1) clear; free from entanglements and ties; find solutions to problems; straighten out

(2) delve; poke around; research; understand

(2) take the entire attention of; occupy wholly

(3) express formally or in legal form

(1) carry out; come to grips with; conduct; control; cope with; deal with; have overall influence; manage; manipulate; ply; process; run; see to; sort out; supervise; take responsibility for; undertake; wield

(2) feel; finger; hold; manage with the hands; touch

Résumé bullet points:

• Handled more than $4,000 per day in cash sales

(1) begin; create; commence; inaugurate; induct; install; instate; instigate; introduce; invest; kick off; open; set off; start

(2) coach; instruct; mentor; teach; train; tutor

(1) be first to develop new ideas or concepts; lead the way

(2) coach; groom; make ready; train; warm up

(2) show to be false

(2) give back; make restitution

(3) put back in place, position, or rank

(4) bring back to health or strength

(2) preserve; put up; store for future use

(3) avoid need to use or spend

(4) prevent or guard against loss, waste, or misuse

(1) continue without break; lead into new areas; proceed without interruption; smooth change to next topic

(2) fly alone

(1) advocate; assist; back; back up; encourage; espouse; foment; help incite; put up to; sanction; support; urge (especially in wrongdoing)

(1) agree; allow; approach; ascend; attain; come to; comply; conform; consent; enter upon; give assent; grant; succeed to; take over

(1) acknowledge or declare approval; applaud; cheer; hail; praise vociferously; sing one’s praises

(1) bring about harmony and concurrence; cause to conform or agree; make an agreement

(2) bestow on someone

(1) accustom; aware; explain; familiar with; inform; introduce; know; notify; present; run by; tell

(2) come to know personally

(1) accept; agree; assent; comply with passively; concede; concur; consent; give in; go along with; submit; yield

(1) accumulate; amass; collect; combine; gather together; sum; total; whole

(1) ally; adjust; bring oneself into agreement with; correct; level; parallel; straighten

(2) arrange something in reference with something else

(1) align; associate; befriend; confederate; help; league; join; support

(1) become overly friendly or familiar with someone

(2) join with another person to do things together

(1) stand together; unite; work together

(1) combine; come together as one; grow together; join; unite

(1) bond; go together; hold fast; join together

(2) entrust; deposit with; give to; place with

(2) empathize; sympathize

(1) chip in; come across; come through; donate; give or supply in common with; kick in; subscribe

(1) act together; agree; associate; co-adjudge; collaborate; social capital; work together for a common purpose

(1) advise; deliberate; guide; inform; mentor

(1) approve; encourage; favorably dispose; sanction; support

(1) develop; encourage; foster; help; nurture; promote; refine; support

(1) educate; enlighten; illuminate; improve; inform; instruct; teach

(2) uplift morally, spiritually, or intellectually

(1) clarify; explain; explicate; expose; expound; illuminate; lucid; make something clear; reveal; throw light on it

(1) have compassion; identify with; sympathize; understand

(2) undergo or feel empathy

(2) attract by offering hope, reward, or pleasure

(3) cajole or lure someone

(2) charge or invest with a trust or duty

(3) assign the care of; turn over for safekeeping

(1) activate; propel someone or something into sudden action; stimulate

(2) occupy the full attention of

(1) impress a belief or idea on someone by repeating it over and over again until the idea is accepted

(2) teach by persistent urging

(1) call to action; provoke; stimulate something

(1) absorb; incorporate; take in

(1) affect; arouse; encourage; excite; impel; incite; prompt; provoke; motivate; stimulate; stir

(1) admit; agree; believe; consent; say you will

(2) receive with gladness and approval

(3) receive; take something being offered

(4) bow to; endure; put up with; resign yourself to; tolerate

(1) beg; change under oath; renounce under oath; request earnestly

(1) come back with; counter; react; reply; respond; rejoin; retort

(2) explain one’s actions or behavior

(1) act as a team; assist; cooperate; pool resources; team up; work jointly with; work together

Résumé bullet points:

• Collaborated closely with project management teams and relevant stakeholders to ensure necessary resources were made available

(1) alter; correct; revise and make ready

(2) prepare a written work for publication by selection, arrangement, and annotation

(3) make additions, deletions, or other changes

(1) clarify; explain; explicate; expose; expound; illuminate; lucid; make something clear; reveal; throw light on it

(1) copy; follow; imitate; work or strive to copy something admired

(2) try often by copying or imitating a model

(3) rival successfully

(2) arrange for the services of; employ; hire

(3) arrange for the use of; reserve

(4) draw into; involve

(5) attract and hold; employ and keep busy; occupy

(6) mesh together

Résumé bullet points:

• Engaged with the strategic business plan as it relates to the overall mission and goals established by the board

(2) accuse; allege; assert; challenge; charge; cite; implicate

(1) assemble; build; construct; create; develop; make; produce

(1) examine; make a remark; monitor; notice; perceive; say; scrutinize; study; survey; view; watch attentively

(2) interpret or view in a particular way

(3) infer from information received

(4) assume that something is present or is the case

(1) admit; agree; believe; consent; consider; hold as truth; say you will

(2) receive with gladness and approval

(3) receive; take something being offered

(4) bow to; endure; put up with; resign yourself to; tolerate

Collocates to: challenge, fact, gift, idea, invitation, offer, position, role, responsibility

(1) acclimatize; accustom yourself; adapt; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

(1) accede; accept; acquiesce; agree; concur; consent

(1) abet; collaborate; facilitate; help with

(1) persist; put into action; take the most difficult

(1) cooperate; work together

(1) combine; come together as one; grow together; join; unite

(1) bond; go together; hold fast; join together

(1) assemble or collect to compare; bring together; gather; pool; pull together

(1) add to; amplify; augment; boost; enhance; enlarge; improve; multiply; raise; swell

(2) encourage; foster; fuel; intensify; redouble; strengthen

(3) escalate; expand; grow; multiply; mushroom; proliferate; rise; soar; spread; swell

Résumé points:

• Increased customer retention by 50 percent over two years, helping to improve profits

• Increased operating performance by 20 percent while reducing labor coast by $500,000

• Increased profit margins and revenues through product mix diversification and targeted marketing

(2) agree to conditions; become a member associate; combine; enlist; enroll; enter; muster in; sign on

(1) acclaim; applaud; celebrate; extol; mention; praise; speak well of

(1) complex; exchange ideas; interact with others to exchange information and develop contacts; make contacts; meet people; set up; use system of contacts

(1) aid; assist; be of use; do services for; help; perform duties; treat in a certain way

(1) communicate something; give one’s portion to another; have in common; use jointly or in common

(1) create cooperative group dynamics

(1) gather speed; go faster; grow; hurry; increase speed of; pick up the pace; quicken; rush; speed up

(2) cause to occur sooner

(1) confer; consider; consult; debate; meditate; mull over; plan; ponder; reflect; think carefully; weigh carefully

(1) define; demarcate; determine; fix boundaries; restrict; set limits; state clearly

(1) allocate; allot; appropriate; assign; set aside or reserve for special purpose

(1) cause; coax; make happen

(2) plan, construct and manage as an engineer

(3) guide; plan and direct skillfully; superintend

(1) accelerate; hurry up; rush

(2) speed up or make easy the process of or action of

(3) dispatch; issue officially; send off

{also use in Design Mind-Set}

(1) hurry or hasten; move very fast

(1) arrange; design; have in mind a project or purpose; intend; prepare; purpose; set up

(2) arrange strategic ideas in diagrams, charts, sketches, graphs, tables, maps, and other documents

Résumé bullet points:

• Planned, coordinated, and supervised all aspects of database center relocation from the West Coast to Atlanta, Georgia, with no impact on service

(2) arouse; stimulate; stir

(3) cause to move more rapidly; hasten

(1) make arrangements or a plan for carrying out something

(2) plan events and activities for certain times

(1) continue without break; lead into new areas; proceed without interruption; smooth change to next topic

(1) bear; continue; endure; go on being; put up with; stomach; take; tolerate

(2) hold; remain; stand fast; stand for; stay

Collocates to: agreements, conditions, laws, norms, rules, resolutions, wishes

(1) acclimatize; accustom yourself; adapt; adjust; become accustomed to a new environment or situation; familiarize; get used to

(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake

(1) accommodate; alter; amend; attune; bend; change; correct; fine-tune; fix; modify; pacify; rectify; regulate; resolve; settle; tune up; tweak

(1) act as a backstop; use as a measure of last resort in case of an emergency

(2) ballot; investigate; poll; research; seek; survey; test

(1) bear the main responsibility for something

(1) persist; put into action; take the most difficult

(1) act as a team; assist; cooperate; pool resources; team up; work jointly with; work together

(1) be done; choate; conclude; entire; finish a task intact; integral; perfect; through; unabridged; uncut; whole; wrap up

Résumé bullet points:

• Completed all job and extracurricular organizational civic requirements with highest proficiency ratings among 100 employees for five straight years

(1) chip in; come across; come through; donate; give or supply in common with; kick in; subscribe

(2) donate as much as possible for a good cause

(1) allow; authorize; give authority or power to; sanction

(2) make one stronger and more confident, especially in controlling his life and claiming his rights

(1) shine; stand out; surpass

(2) be better, greater, or superior to others in the same field, profession, or endeavor

(2) put forth or use energetically; put into action

(3) apply with great energy or effort

(1) bypass others; move a job ahead on a faster pace than normal; rapidly accomplish; speed up process

Résumé bullet points:

• Fast tracked database projects

(1) become determined not to budge from an opinion or position; circle the wagons; get in defensive position; prepare for bad news or prolonged assault; prepare for siege

(1) make the best or most effective use of a situation or resource

(1) do or perform better than expected