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