Usually means: Grasps and accurately interprets information correctly.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word understands:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. understands: Merriam-Webster
  2. understands: Collins English Dictionary
  3. understands: Vocabulary.com
  4. Understands, understands: Wordnik
  5. understands: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. understands: Wiktionary
  7. understands: Dictionary.com
  8. understands: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. understands: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understands: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understands: Idioms

(Note: See understand as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (understand)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) (of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
verb:  (transitive) (generally) To know the meaning of.
verb:  (transitive) (of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
verb:  (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
verb:  (transitive) (of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
verb:  (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
verb:  (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
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