Synonyms for operative
ˈɒp ər ə tɪv, ˈɒp rə tɪv, ˈɒp əˌreɪ tɪvop·er·a·tive

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1. operative

   Artist, artificer and artisan are all from the root of art, but artist holds to the esthetic sense, while artificer and artisan follow the mechanical or industrial sense of the word (see ART under SCIENCE). Artist thus comes only into accidental association with the other words of this group, not being a synonym of any one of them and having practically no synonym of its own. The work of the artist is creative; that of the artisan mechanical. The man who paints a beautiful picture is an artist; the man who makes pin-heads all day is an artisan. The artificer is between the two, putting more thought, intelligence, and taste into his work than the artisan, but less of the idealizing, creative power than the artist. The sculptor, shaping his model in clay, is artificer, as well as artist; patient artisans, working simply by rule and scale, chisel and polish the stone. The man who constructs anything by mere routine and rule is a mechanic. The man whose work involves thought, skill, and constructive power is an artificer. The hod-carrier is a laborer; the bricklayer is a mechanic; the master mason is an artificer. Those who operate machinery nearly self-acting are operatives.

   Synonyms:
   artificer, artisan, artist, mechanic, workman

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1. operative

   Synonyms:
   active, efficacious, serviceable, binding

   Antonyms:
   inefficacious, inoperative

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1. secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operativenoun

   a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

   Synonyms:
   intelligence officer, private detective, sherlock, private eye, private investigator, intelligence agent, shamus, secret agent

   Antonyms:
   down, insignificant, unimportant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, nonfunctional, inoperative

2. private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlockadjective

   someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

   Synonyms:
   private investigator, private detective, intelligence officer, sherlock, private eye, intelligence agent, shamus, protease inhibitor, secret agent, principal investigator

   Antonyms:
   malfunctioning, defunct, nonfunctional, inoperative, unimportant, down, insignificant, dead

3. operativeadjective

   being in force or having or exerting force

   "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

   Antonyms:
   dead, unimportant, malfunctioning, insignificant, nonfunctional, defunct, inoperative, down

4. surgical, operativeadjective

   relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

   "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

   Antonyms:
   inoperative, dead, malfunctioning, unimportant, defunct, nonfunctional, down, insignificant

5. operativeadjective

   effective; producing a desired effect

   "the operative word"

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

   Antonyms:
   nonfunctional, down, insignificant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, unimportant, inoperative

6. running(a), operative, functional, working(a)adjective

   (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

   "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, defunct, down, insignificant, dead, malfunctioning, nonfunctional, inoperative

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1. operativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   acting, active, in action, in operation

2. operativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   effective, efficient, effectual, efficacious, serviceable

3. operativenoun

   Synonyms:
   laborer, artisan, laboring man, common workman

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1. List of paraphrases for "operative":

   operational, dispositif, device, operating

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1. Abid Naseer:

   Abid is innocent, he is not a terrorist. He is not an al-Qaida operative.

2. Richard Blumenthal:

   This kind of back channel for the President's personal attorney, a political operative ought to... deeply alarm and frighten America because it in essence, weaponizes law enforcement and the Department of Justice as a political tool.

3. Paul Fisher:

   Insurers will need to deal with the PRA in an open, co-operative and constructive manner, to allow us to understand whether the business model is sustainable and to identify key vulnerabilities.

4. Foreign Affairs:

   I have not seen anything that could prove that he( Levinson) was ever in Press TV Iran. In fact, we have seen evidence... he was last seen alive outside Press TV Iran, with pictures showing that he was outside Iran when he was last seen, press TV Iran's Press TV Iran. We've said clearly that we have no knowledge of his whereabouts. ... We need the United States to explain for Press TV Iran what a CIA operative was doing, if he was ever in Iranian territory, what was he doing in Iranian territory.

5. Jack Glaser:

   But when they're busy doing their job, they're distracted. The biases are still going to be operative and influence them unless you change the practices and the policies, the bottom line is we don't know how to change the biases in a meaningful, lasting way, because they're... the way we think normally and they're based on years of exposure. So in the absence of being able to change them, we need to change the way people make decisions and the way that they act.