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operative

English

  1. 🔊 being in force or having or exerting force
    “operative regulations”
  2. 🔊 effective
    “the operative word”
  3. 🔊 (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
    “in running (or working) order”
  4. 🔊 relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
    “a surgical appendix”
  5. 🔊 a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
  6. 🔊 someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

Spanish

  1. 🔊 operario operative
  2. 🔊 operativo operative

Similar words

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