GMAT Vocabulary: Actions

On Tuesday the firm floated its new shares, and outside buyers could purchase them on the regional exchange that morning.

One cashier's check discharged the workshop's remaining loan, and the lender marked the balance paid.

By a recorded vote the council appropriated a set sum for the clinic wing, and no other project was allowed to spend that money.

Before Friday's deadline three builders tendered bids for the clinic roof, each naming a price in writing.

Selling the spare warehouse above its book value, the firm realized a gain and received cash for the building.

After two missed deliveries the clinic secured a second supplier and gained a written contract it had not had before.

Investors received certificates they could hold or sell when the firm issued new bonds.

The workshop screened every applicant for the night shift, checking licenses before anyone was hired.

Builders could proceed the next day once the council authorized the zoning change.

Rather than treating the new kiln as an immediate expense, the firm capitalized its cost and recorded an asset.

Two clerks finished the inventory count after the director delegated that task, which she no longer did herself.

The workshop executed the repair plan exactly as written, finishing each step the manual listed.

The council addressed the nurse shortage by funding two training seats, taking up a problem it had left untouched.

The clinic commissioned a local studio to design the waiting room and paid that studio to produce the plans.

A local agent brokered the supply agreement, and the firm and the mill both signed before midnight.

The council suspended the night bus for the winter months and planned to restore the route in March.

The firm retired the old press, removing it from the floor so no further jobs would run on it.

The market stall discounted the bruised pears, selling them for less than the morning price.

The mill hedged its wheat purchases with a futures contract, so a later price jump would not raise its flour cost.

The council channeled the grant into nurse training, sending that money to the program and to no other use.

The clerk debited the equipment account for the new kiln, placing that cost on the debit side of the account.

Three clinics aggregated their vaccine orders, combining the quantities into one purchase so each paid a lower unit price.

The firm's lawyer drafted the merger memo as a first version the partners still planned to revise.

The clinic slated the imaging room for Thursday, placing that slot on the schedule so no other patient could take it.

The workshop qualified for the city rebate after it showed two years of receipts and met every condition on the form.

The council pegged the stall fee to last year's figure, holding it at that amount instead of letting it change.

The council sanctioned the Saturday market, and the stalls were then allowed to open in the square.

The firm assumed the clinic's outstanding bills, agreeing to pay debts the clinic still owed.

The investor exercised the option before it expired, buying the shares at the price the contract allowed.

The clinic retained outside counsel for the lease dispute, paying a lawyer to argue the case.

The firm liquidated its spare copper, selling the metal for cash before the quarter ended.

The firm consolidated its three city clinics onto one site, and patients who had used separate buildings shared a single entrance.

The firm divested its ferry line, selling that business to a local operator and leaving shipping behind.

A city bank underwrote the clinic bond, agreeing to buy any portion investors did not take.

The workshop amortized the patent on its glaze formula, spreading that intangible cost across ten years instead of recognizing it all at once.

The council deferred the tax vote until the audit arrived, leaving the rate unchanged at the present meeting.

The council levied a small stall fee, requiring every vendor to pay it before opening.

After four years the pension vested, and the mechanic owned that retirement amount even if she left the shop.

The clinic waived the intake fee for the first visit, so the patient owed nothing for that appointment.

The council ratified the lease, and that approval made the clinic's ten-year term binding.

The council rescinded the parking ban, and cars could again stop along the clinic street.

The firm allocated half the training budget to safety drills, and that share could not be spent on travel.

The council earmarked the donation for the night clinic, so the money could not be moved to road repair.

The clerk disbursed the grant in two checks, and both training programs received their money that week.

The bookkeeper reconciled the bank statement to the ledger, and every deposit on one list matched the other.

The clinic prorated the membership fee for a member who joined in October, charging three months of a twelve-month rate.

The firm depreciated the delivery van, recording a lower book value each year as the van aged.

The spare lot appreciated after the tram line opened, and its market price stood higher than the firm had paid.

The firm impaired the unused trademark, lowering its book value after sales under that name had stopped.

Interest accrued on the unpaid invoice, and the balance grew a little each week the clinic delayed payment.

The shop defaulted on the equipment loan, missing the March payment the contract required.

The lender foreclosed on the empty warehouse after a year of missed payments, taking title under the loan terms.

The clinic refinanced its building loan, replacing the old note with a new one at a lower rate.

The firm repatriated cash from its foreign shop, moving that money back to its home-city account.

The clinic remitted the supplier's fee by bank transfer, and the supplier confirmed that the money had arrived.

A grant offset the rise in rent, and the clinic's monthly cash need stayed the same despite the higher lease.

After wages and flour were paid, the bakery netted a small profit.

The Saturday market grossed more than a weekday market, taking in a higher total before any stall fees were subtracted.

The workshop factored its unpaid invoices, selling those customer bills to a finance house for immediate cash.

The firm securitized a pool of clinic leases, turning those payment streams into bonds investors could buy.

The shop collateralized the new truck, pledging it so the lender could claim the vehicle if payments stopped.

The clinic hypothecated its imaging machine, pledging it as security while still using it every day.

A recorded lien encumbered the lot, so the firm could not sell it free of that claim.

The deed conveyed the lot to the clinic, transferring ownership from the firm at the closing.

The firm ceded the river parcel to the council, giving up its title so the town could build a landing.

The council annexed the meadow beside the market, adding that land to the town's holdings.

The baker paid monthly rent for the corner unit the firm leased to her.

The clinic chartered a van for the rural vaccination day, hiring it for that one trip rather than buying it.

The builder subcontracted the wiring, hiring a licensed shop to do that part of the clinic job.

The firm outsourced payroll, sending that monthly work to a specialist shop instead of doing it in the office.

The clinic insourced linen washing, doing in its own basement a job a vendor had handled.

The firm offloaded the night deliveries to a local carrier, and its own drivers stopped making those runs.

The firm centralized purchasing, and every clinic ordered gauze through one office instead of buying on its own.

The council decentralized park permits, letting each district office issue them instead of city hall alone.

The clinic streamlined intake, dropping two duplicate forms so a patient could finish the paperwork in one sitting.

The clinics standardized the consent form, and every site used the same wording.

The technician calibrated the scale before the spice sale, adjusting it until a known weight read correctly.

The clinic benchmarked its wait times against a peer hospital, comparing the two figures to see where it lagged.

An outside accountant audited the market's books, checking each receipt against the ledger.

A licensed valuer appraised the corner lot, stating a market value the firm used in the sale talks.

The invoice itemized each repair, listing the belt, the labor, and the tax on separate lines.

The charter enumerated the council's powers, naming each power in turn rather than as a vague group.

Instead of describing the linen loss only as large, the clinic quantified it and reported how many sheets were missing.

From the prior year's orders, the buyer forecast the next month's flour need.

From four winter counts the clerk extrapolated a yearly visitor total, extending the pattern into months not yet counted.

Between the known March and May counts, the clerk interpolated an April figure that lay between those two values.

The council indexed the stall fee to the local price measure, so the fee rose when that measure rose.

Saturday stall hours changed after the council deregulated them, and vendors could stay later once the old closing-time rule was gone.

Part-time bakers could sell bread where only full-time shops had been allowed, because the council liberalized the license rule.

The new rule constrained overtime, limiting the night hours the workshop could assign.

The clinic curtailed evening appointments, ending the schedule at six instead of eight.

A courier expedited the replacement part, bringing it the same day instead of on the usual three-day route.

The shop forestalled a stockout by ordering flour early, so the bins were full before the holiday rush.

The firm preempted rivals by filing the trademark first, securing the name before any other bakery could claim it.

The lease stipulated a quiet hour after nine, requiring the bakery to stop its mixer at that time.

The safety manual prescribed steel-toe shoes on the kiln floor, requiring that footwear for every shift.

Heaters that had been allowed the previous winter were forbidden once the council proscribed open flames at the market.

Vendors had to install a smoke alarm before the next market day, which the council mandated for every stall.

Every vendor could read the rates after the council promulgated the new fee schedule.

The noise rule took effect the following Monday because the council enacted the ordinance.

Shops could open on Sunday again after the council repealed the closing bylaw.

A court order nullified the unsigned lease, making that document legally void.

Because the map had shown the wrong lot, the council annulled the mistaken permit and declared it void.

After the council revoked the vendor's license for missed inspections, she could not sell until she reapplied.

Permission that had been withdrawn came back when the council reinstated the vendor's license after the appeal.

Members were back at two because the council adjourned at noon instead of ending the session for good.

The chair convened the council at dawn, calling the members together for an emergency market vote.