Synonym: hustler, manipulator, wheeler dealer. Similar words: refrigerator, operate, operating, cooperate, operation, laboratory, AND operation, cooperative. Meaning: ['ɑpəreɪtə(r) /'ɒp-] n. 1. (mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions 2. an agent that operates some apparatus or machine 3. someone who owns or operates a business 4. a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties 5. a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets.
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(151) The analogy is now the addition of a thermometer in the water in the kettle with its dial visible to the operator.
(152) In reality, Diana was given less training in her new job than the average supermarket checkout operator.
(153) The operator also announced Spheris, a new messaging software designed to integrate its existing telecommunications services on to personal computers.
(154) One operator said total compensation demands could rise to £750m.
(155) This clearly implies that the full environmental costs of mining operations should be borne by the operator.
(156) This eliminates the possibility of the wrong person being updated, and enables the operator to see if any details are incorrect.
(157) Burlington said it is considering other candidates to serve as licensed operator of shoe departments in the affected stores after this year.
(158) The brief experience of Stagecoach, the only private operator running regular passenger services, has been mixed.
(159) Will operator charges by Railtrack be reflected in higher fares and possible loss of patronage resulting from cross price elasticity?
(160) It is of the utmost importance that it is the mind of the human operator doing the selecting.
(161) In these terms, the human operator is a particular sub-system.
(162) The group, Britain's biggest coach operator, employs 1,000 people and carries 12m passengers a year.
(163) Prior to drilling, the operator consulted local bodies such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the fishing industry.
(164) To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user.
(165) In so doing, they alter the shape of the repressor so that it can no longer bind to the operator region.
(166) The operator will then look up, puzzled, and see your friendly face as you ask her to repeat the amount.
(167) At last he called the operator and asked whether the phone was out of order.
(168) Advantages of computerization to the supermarket operator include reduced labor costs, fewer pricing errors, and better inventory control.
(169) Percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology is, however, highly operator dependent.
(170) The civilian operator who took the SOS call may have heard the voice of her killer.
(171) As a scheduled operator, Virgin must fly its 400-seat jumbos even if there are only a handful of passengers on board.
(172) The computer flags any bodies that have moved during the observing session and brings them to the attention of the operator.
(173) The civilian operator will be required to own and operate a fleet of twenty trainers.
(174) In this situation, the site owner will still be paid by the National Grid as well as the mast operator.
(175) Now he's a computer operator with a firm of designers.
(176) I'd ring them up to complain but I'd never get past the switchboard operator before it stopped working again.
(177) There was something of value to the company that could be counted and tied back to an individual operator.
(178) The machine operator she replaced is unemployed and too old to be re-skilled.
(179) High standards of plumbing,[http://sentencedict.com/operator.html] sanitation and hygiene; special factors: school summer holiday peak demand; operator reliability and continuity.
(180) She undertook work experience with a tour operator to find out whether the reality matched her expectations.
More similar words: refrigerator, operate, operating, cooperate, operation, laboratory, AND operation, cooperative, cooperate with, administrator, opera, educator, senator, predator, elevator, regulator, indicator, legislator, regulatory, coordinator, conciliatory, investigator, moderate, generate, tolerate, desperate, inveterate, accelerate, desperately, deliberately.