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operative
noun
1 operative
A person secretly employed in espionage for a government.
synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent.
Roget 690:
doer,
actor,
agent,
performer,
perpetrator,
operator;
executor,
executrix;
practitioner,
worker,
stager.
bee,
ant,
working bee,
termite,
white ant;
laboring oar,
servant of all work,
factotum.
workman,
artisan;
craftsman,
handicraftsman;
mechanic,
operative;
working man;
laboring man;
demiurgus,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
laborer,
navvy†;
hand,
man,
day laborer,
journeyman,
charwoman,
hack;
mere tool
etc.
633;
beast of burden,
drudge,
fag;
lumper†,
roustabout.
maker,
artificer,
artist,
wright,
manufacturer,
architect,
builder,
mason,
bricklayer,
smith,
forger,
Vulcan;
carpenter;
ganger,
platelayer;
blacksmith,
locksmith,
sailmaker,
wheelwright.
machinist,
mechanician,
engineer.
sempstress†,
semstress†,
seamstress;
needlewoman†,
workwoman;
tailor,
cordwainer†.
minister
etc.
(instrument)
631;
servant
etc.
746;
representative
etc.
(commissioner)
758,
(deputy)
759.
coworker,
party to,
participator in,
particeps criminis [Lat.],
dramatis personae [Lat.];
personnel.
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2 operative
adjective
1 operative
Being in force or having or exerting force.
Roget 170:
operative,
efficient,
efficacious,
practical,
effectual.
at work,
on foot;
acting
etc.
(doing)
680;
in operation,
in force,
in action,
in play,
in exercise;
acted upon,
wrought upon.
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2 operative
Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine:
— Operative dentistry.
synonym: surgical.
3 operative
Effective; producing a desired effect.
4 operative
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