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.
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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61. The former system involved the operative having to attach more than 20 bands at a time to hold a mould in position.
62. Brief details of the operative procedures they undergo are provided.
63. The decisional roles can not become fully operative until he has more information.
64. Here, the difficulty revolves around the different constitutional arrangements operative in the two jurisdictions being compared.
65. He admired Kaas' lack of fear(http://sentencedict.com/operative.html), saw it as a formidable weapon in such a cool-thinking operative.
66. For the consent to be operative it must be such as to clothe the agent with with apparent authority to sell the goods.
67. Moreover, there may well be reluctance or bad feeling when the operative or gang is obliged to undertake work without bonus.
68. The plaintiffs contended that the operative figure was the rent of ￡20,000, entitling them to ￡2,000.
69. The operative word was'real '.
70. The law ceases to be operative.
71. Objective:To study the operative treatment of duodenal diverticulosis.
72. Objective To observe the operative outcomes of Marfan's syndrome.
73. Operative reduction should be considered.
74. Our computerized stock control system is now operative.
75. The airport is operative again after the bad weather.
76. Objective : To explore a new operative method of calcaneal tendon lengthening.
77. The correlativity of theoretical knowledge of four types of mechanical work and operative skill is discussed.
78. The measures for reducing the incidence of operative complications are specialized training, meticulous operating, adopting local anaesthesia and so on.
79. The impacts of multiple operative parameters on the sony - degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls and bromobenzene were investigated.
80. The conclusion is that leading enterprises should adopt relative diversification strategy, seeking for new profit increasing points while decentralizing operative risk.
81. Immediate breast reconstruction after modified radical mastectomy is fit for tumor cure and esthetic aim and can accomplish post operative chemotherapy and radiotherapy on schedule.
82. Post - operative temporarily neurological deficits including aphasia , motorial and sensory disturbance presented in 8 patients, permanent deficit in 2.
83. The transsphincteric approach possesses the advantage of a direct operative field and a good exposition.
84. Objective To introduce the operative model, radiotherapeutic method, radiation-induced complication and cosmetic result of conservingbreast therapy on patients with breast cancer.
85. Objective To introduce an operative method for treating hypertrophy of the labia minora.
86. Background: Different operative techniques for transfer of the pectoralis major tendon have been proposed for the treatment of irreparable ruptures of the subscapularis tendon.
87. Objective To investigate the operative methods in children capitulum humeral fracture.
88. The main reasons of suppuration from ear canal after mastoidotympanectomy are imperfection of focus clean and inadequate drainage of operative cavus.
89. Objective To report anterior sacral meningocele in pelvic cavity and to discuss its clinical features, diagnostic procedures and operative approach.
90. Method:The preoperative state, operative programs and method of anesthesia were studied in 5 cases of embolectomy of massive pulmonary artery embolism.
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