operative English

Meaning operative meaning

What does operative mean?

operative

— adjective being in force or having or exerting force operative regulations the major tendencies operative in the American political system

— adjective effective; producing a desired effect the operative word

— adjective (= surgical) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine a surgical appendix a surgical procedure operative dentistry

— adjective (= running, functional, working) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing in running (or working) order a functional set of brakes

— noun (= secret agent) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

— noun (= private detective) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

Synonyms operative synonyms

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worker

labourer

hand

workman

working man

laborer

surgical

effective

active

working

secret agent

private detective

intelligence agent

in force

functional

agent

spy

sherlock

shamus

running

private investigator

private eye

policeman

police officer

officer

mechanic

intelligence officer

in use

in effect

copper

cop

constable

artisan

actor

PI

wright

workingman

wondrous

valid

substantive

striking

spook

spectacular

sound

sleeper

significant

robot

prepossessing

practical

opportunity

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Simple sentences

Mary's post-operative abdominal pain was caused by the surgeon leaving a surgical instrument inside her.

Movie subtitles

Miss O'Shaughnessy is an operative in my employ since yesterday.

Sleep regulators operative in zone 1. Thank you.

Zone 2, are you operative?

Co-operative party?

This is the right place, the Co-operative whatnot thing?

I live near here now. I'm in the new co-operative housing.

As an added refinement, I think SPECTRE would probably have the chance of a personal revenge for the killing of our operative. Dr No.

Are you an undercover operative for Sunways Systems?

Sebastian Rooks is a freelance operative, who we hired to find out how digicorp was getting their agents passed our neurograph.

He is a deep cover operative. A Yuri in cyberspace.

You wife Amy was one of your own operative playing a part.

Please, I've been very co-operative. But I cannot speak on Mr Preston's behalf.

Sector four reports phase one operative.

Sorry, Inspector. Hate to appear unco-operative.

Very well. Are you ready Operative Number 7?

Operative 23, the time is now.

No, the fires actually broke out some time before the voice called to his operative in London.

I'll put my best operative onto it.

All of which is secondary to the operative procedure.

Oh, yes, operative, yeah.

As an added refinement, I think SPECTRE would have the chance of a personal revenge for the killing of our operative.

That would be highly co-operative of you, miss.

You kept me out of the operation, you can't keep me from taking post-operative care. Heh.

Was there a time when you were not co-operative?

Scott here, captain. Scanners operative on the planet surface?

All systems operative.

Now he'll be co-operative.

Scanners operative on the planet surface?

All satellites operative, captain.

Reserve energy banks operative at a very low power level.

Also operative at a low power level.

I can't imagine a man like Matt Decker abandoning ship while his life-support systems are still operative.

Impulse and warp engines operative.

Our deflectors are operative, enough to prevent our being picked up again as a UFO.

Does that mean I won't be co-operative - I won't do everything I'm told?

This man was very co-operative.

And it must be hooked into your main power plants in order to be operative.

The laser has to be made operative.

Scrambling's operative.

News and current affairs

That danger underlies the view, still operative in the US, that opinions, however obnoxious, should be freely expressible, so that they can be opposed by counter-arguments.

If the Constitution is not ratified, the Treaty of Nice becomes the Union's operative document.

Though such alternatives are less efficient, they are again the operative regime.

But the global economy's new housing bubbles may not be about to burst just yet, because the forces feeding them - especially easy money and the need to hedge against inflation - are still fully operative.

Lt. Gen. Alexander Rukshin, chief of the General Staff's main operative directorate, spoke of the need for modernization of command and control systems in preparation for such a war.

It makes sense for those common interests to be safeguarded and addressed by co-operative, co-ordinated action.

Co-operative regional projects are, today, Africa's best hope for constructing the type of infrastructure African economies require.

Why do different patients who undergo the same surgical procedure experience markedly different post-operative pain?

And the new mechanism will not be operative until September at the earliest.

In recent years, they too have been co-operative in Germany, though there is some concern that next year's big wage negotiations could be difficult.

From atoms to stars, we now have a precise, operative picture of nearly all physical phenomena.

Here too we now have a precise, operative picture of all life processes, from bacteria to humanity.