operative
— Noun
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~ a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
operator
— Noun
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~ (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
operator
— Noun
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~ a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
operator
— Noun
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~ a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
operator
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~ someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"
operator gene
— Noun
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~ a gene that activates the production of messenger RNA by adjacent structural genes
operator
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~ an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard"
operculum
— Noun
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~ a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted