Definitions for operative
ˈɒp ər ə tɪv, ˈɒp rə tɪv, ˈɒp əˌreɪ tɪvop·er·a·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operativenoun

   a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

2. private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlockadjective

   someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

3. operativeadjective

   being in force or having or exerting force

   "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"

4. surgical, operativeadjective

   relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

   "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"

5. operativeadjective

   effective; producing a desired effect

   "the operative word"

6. running(a), operative, functional, working(a)adjective

   (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

   "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Operativenoun

   One who acts as an agent of another, especially a detective or spy.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. operativenoun

   An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.

2. operativenoun

   A spy, secret agent, or detective.

3. operativenoun

   A participant of an operation.

4. operativeadjective

   Effectual or important.

   He's usually in a good mood the operative word there being "usually". Today was a disaster.

5. operativeadjective

   Functional, in working order.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Operativeadjective

   Having the power of acting; having forcible agency.

   Etymology: from operate.

   To be over curious in searching how God’s all-piercing and operative spirit distinguishing gave form to the matter of the universal, is a search like unto his, who not contented with a known ford, will presume to pass over the greatest rivers in all parts where he is ignorant of their depths. Ral.

   Many of the nobility endeavoured to make themselves popular, by speaking in parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty; and he thought a little discountenance upon those persons would suppress that spirit within themselves, or make the poison of it less operative upon others. Edward Hyde.

   In actions of religion we should be zealous, active and operative, so far as prudence will permit. Taylor.

   This circumstance of the promise must give life to all the rest, and make them operative toward the producing of good life. Decay of Piety.

   It holds in all operative principles, especially in morality; in which, not to proceed, is certainly to go backward. South.

   The will is the conclusion of an operative syllogism. John Norris.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Operative

   in working order or actually working.

Matched Categories

1. • Agent

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1. evaporite

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of operative in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of operative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of operative in a Sentence

1. Henry Watton:

   In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

2. Abid Naseer:

   Abid is innocent, he is not a terrorist. He is not an Al Qaeda operative.

3. C. C. Colton:

   There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

4. Marsha Blackburn:

   It’s clear Joe Biden isn’t running the show. He ran as a moderate, but the policies he’s advocated for as President have been outrageously far left, if Biden’s unpopular first year in office has told us anything, it’s that he should immediately reconsider the team pushing this liberal activist agenda to federalize our elections, defund the police, pack the courts, and spend millions of dollars at the expense of the American taxpayer – starting with the mastermind and long-time political operative, Ron Klain.

5. Jack Glaser:

   But when they're busy doing their job, they're distracted. The biases are still going to be operative and influence them unless you change the practices and the policies, the bottom line is we don't know how to change the biases in a meaningful, lasting way, because they're... the way we think normally and they're based on years of exposure. So in the absence of being able to change them, we need to change the way people make decisions and the way that they act.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=operative
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=operative
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Operative
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=operative
5. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=operative