Definition of Operative

Noun

• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
  - private detective pi - private eye - private investigator shamus sherlock
• a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
  - secret agent - intelligence officer - intelligence agent

Adjective

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
  "in running (or working) order"
  "a functional set of brakes"
  running functional working
• effective
  producing a desired effect
  "the operative word"
  
• relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
  "a surgical appendix"
  "a surgical procedure"
  "operative dentistry"
  surgical
• being in force or having or exerting force
  "operative regulations"
  "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"
  

Word games points for the Operative

• Scrabble® score of the operative (14)
• Word Chums® score of the operative (17)
• Words With Friends® score of the operative (16)

Unscramble operative

320 unscramble word found using the letters operative.

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