Synonym: PI, functional, intelligence agent, intelligence officer, key, private detective, private eye, private investigator, running, secret agent, shamus, sherlock, surgical, working. Similar words: cooperative, post-operative, postoperative, cooperativeness, imperative, vituperative, degenerative, operation. Meaning: ['ɑpərətɪv /'ɒp-] n. 1. a person secretly employed in espionage for a government 2. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information. adj. 1. being in force or having or exerting force 2. of or relating to a surgical operation 3. relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine 4. effective; producing a desired effect 5. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing.
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31. The local authority contend the correct date is when the demand for payment was served or when it became operative.
32. The majority of patients in a surgical ward will undergo some sort of operative procedure during their stay in hospital.
33. Most physicists would claim that the fundamental laws operative at the scale of a human brain are indeed all perfectly well known.
34. That almost surely means he was a Soviet intelligence operative, at least part-time.
35. The directly employed building operative may be motivated by factors other than money incentives.
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36. Thirty four patients were a high operative risk and 14 presented with an acute complication of gall stone disease.
37. In fact the powers did not become operative during the lifetime of the commission.
38. In addition to romantic love, the major tie that is still operative between male and female is the project of reproduction.
39. Operative management is not without risk, however, as it has a reported 5-12% death rate.
40. Not all patients, however, such as the elderly and high risk, are suitable for these new operative techniques.
41. Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.
42. If the bond is currently trading below par, its operative life is likely to be the number of years to maturity.
43. But who makes the operative decisions is not just a matter of constitutional structures and personalities.
44. An on-site undercover operative can offer an employer protection without the presence of an armed guard.
45. Other books about Aldrich Ames, the turncoat CIA operative who sold secrets to the Soviets, already have been published.
46. The operative adapts to the idea of saving time and bonus calculations are greatly simplified.
47. These new rules are still evolving and are becoming operative in some parts of the economy more quickly than in others.
48. They became operative on, and the registration process started from that date.
49. Ideally, an operative should maintain close contact with his client.
50. On those terms, which in fact became operative, the father agreed to pay £1 a week.
51. Increased rates of operative delivery are not necessarily bad if genuinely compromised babies are rescued from death and damage.
52. To become operative, however, the Accord required ratification by each provincial legislature by June 23, 1990.
53. I was madly - and that's the operative word - head over heels in lust.
54. Most basic of all are lexical units which become operative in minimal, or neutral, contexts.
55. There are now programs on the market that can almost read as well as humans - almost being the operative word, of course.
56. He's a kind of amateur psychologist, and amateur is the operative word here.
57. The revelations will deeply embarrass the security services and lead to further accusations of incompetence as yet another operative tells his story.
58. If the target time is protracted the operative may have difficulty in pacing and measuring output, and lose enthusiasm.
59. On scouting assignments, he developed a reputation for slinking around games, hiding out as if he were a CIA operative.
60. The operative word is amateur, and I do not mean it pejoratively.
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