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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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Words sounding like good operative
creative native operative cooperative administrative legislative degenerative speculative commemorative vegetative collaborative cumulative authoritative communicative associative calculative uncommunicative palliative uncreative recitative educative quantitative penetrative qualitative generative suppurative copulative remunerative incommunicative determinative