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operative noun
Meaning : A person secretly employed in espionage for a government.
Synonyms : intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent
Meaning : Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.
Synonyms : pi, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock
operative adjective
Meaning : Being in force or having or exerting force.
Example :
Operative regulations.
The major tendencies operative in the American political system.
Meaning : Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine.
Example :
A surgical appendix.
A surgical procedure.
Operative dentistry.
Synonyms : surgical
Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery.
Medical treatment.Pneumonia is a medical disease.
medical
Meaning : Effective. Producing a desired effect.
Example :
The operative word.
Meaning : (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing.
Example :
In running (or working) order.
A functional set of brakes.
Synonyms : functional, running, working
