Synonym: act, carry on, conduct, function, handle, manage, perform, run, work. Similar words: cooperate, cooperate with, operator, operating, operation, cooperative, AND operation, tolerate. Meaning: ['ɑpəreɪt /'ɒp-] 
v. 1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. 2. perform as expected when applied 3. handle and cause to function 4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense 5. happen 6. keep engaged 7. perform surgery on.
v. 1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. 2. perform as expected when applied 3. handle and cause to function 4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense 5. happen 6. keep engaged 7. perform surgery on. 
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211 Thus, no communications medium should be required to operate under standards and obligations imposed for decades on broadcasting by the government.
212 It seems certain that there is still a place for working elephants in mountainous regions where machinery can not easily operate.
213 At least a bill of rights would provide standards - laid down by parliament - against which our judiciary would have to operate.
More similar words: cooperate, cooperate with, operator, operating, operation, cooperative, AND operation, tolerate, desperate, generate, moderate, inveterate, desperately, accelerate, deliberately, opera, rate, refrigerator, consideration, generation gap, accurate, at any rate, decorate, strategy, corporate, strategic, elaborate, integrate, frustrate, accurately.