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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. operative: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. operative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. operative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. operative: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. operative: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. operative, operative: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Operative, operative: Wordnik [home, info]
8. operative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. operative: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. operative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. operative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. operative: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. operative: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. operative (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. operative: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. operative: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. operative: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
18. Operative, The Operative (film), The Operative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Operative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. operative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. operative: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. operative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. operative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. operative: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. operative: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. operative: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. operative: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. operative: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

29. operative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
30. OPERATIVE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
31. operative: Legal dictionary [home, info]
32. operative: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

33. operative: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

34. operative: online medical dictionary [home, info]
35. operative: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

36. operative: Idioms [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

37. Operative: 2060 Shadow-Slang [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (operative) ▸ noun:  a person secretly employed in espionage for a government ▸ noun:  someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information ▸ adjective:  effective; producing a desired effect ("The operative word") ▸ adjective:  of or relating to a surgical operation ("Operative surgery") ▸ adjective:  being in force or having or exerting force ("Operative regulations") ▸ adjective:  (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing ▸ adjective:  relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine ("Operative dentistry") ▸ Also see operatives ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to operative ▸ Usage examples for operative ▸ Idioms related to operative (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing operative ▸ Popular nouns described by operative ▸ Words that often appear near operative ▸ Rhymes of operative ▸ Invented words related to operative