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nouna person secretly employed in espionage for a governmenttype of:
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"operative dentistry"adjectiverelating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
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nounsomeone who can be employed as a detective to collect informationtype of:
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adjective(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
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"operative regulations" "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"adjectivebeing in force or having or exerting forceOpposite:
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"the operative word"adjectiveeffective; producing a desired effect
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Definition that contains operative
- team a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- catch a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- operation the state of being in effect or being operative
- crash (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
- surgery the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
- bond British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming
- squad a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- owen Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
- collective members of a cooperative enterprise
- partnership a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal