Definition of Operative

Noun

  • someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
    - private detective - private eye - private investigator
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • being in force or having or exerting force
    "operative regulations"
    "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

Word games points for the Operative

  • Scrabble® score of the operative (14)
  • Word Chums® score of the operative (17)
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Unscramble operative

320 unscramble word found using the letters operative.
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