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单词 operative
释义
operative
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒp.ər.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈɑː.pɚ.ə.t̬ɪv/
formal
aworker,especiallyone who isskilledinworkingwiththeirhands:
工人；（尤指）技工
afactoryoperative工厂技工
mainlyUS
apersonwhoworkssecretlyfor anorganization:
密探；特工人员
aCIAoperative中央情报局特工
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Employees & colleagues
  • anti-incumbent
  • appointee
  • career woman
  • claque
  • co-worker
  • compatriot
  • hire
  • incumbent
  • lifer
  • mate
  • new blood
  • new broom
  • nominee
  • non-employee
  • payroll
  • peon
  • self-starter
  • skip-level
  • staff
  • staffer
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operative
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈɒp.ər.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈɑː.pɚ.ə.t̬ɪv/

operativeadjective(in use)

workingor being used:
有效的；实施中的；使用中的
Theagreementwill notbecomeoperative until allmembershavesigned.所有的成员都签字后协议才会生效。
Opposite
inoperative
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Machines - Functioning
  • action
  • actuator
  • asthmatically
  • commission
  • deactivation
  • firesomeoneup
  • function assomething/someone
  • functional
  • functionality
  • functioning
  • in commissionidiom
  • operate
  • operational
  • order
  • power
  • reset
  • self-driving
  • start
  • start (something) up
  • tick over
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operativeadjective(medical)

medicalspecialized
relatingto amedicaloperation:
和手术有关的
an operativetechnique手术技术
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Medical treatment: surgery
  • a nip and tuckidiom
  • ablate
  • adrenalectomy
  • amputation
  • amputee
  • anaesthesiology
  • anaesthetize
  • implantable
  • implantation
  • incision
  • interoperative
  • intraoperative
  • knife
  • laughing gas
  • sex change
  • sex reassignment surgery
  • snip
  • splenectomy
  • spreader
  • transfusion
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Idiom

the operative word
(Definition ofoperativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

operative| American Dictionary

operative
adjective
us
/ˈɑp·ər·ə·t̬ɪv/
working, or inexistence:
Ourcomputerizedstock-controlsystemis now operative.
I’mlookingfor alarge,affordableapartment– and "affordable" is the operative word(= it hasspecialimportance).
(Definition ofoperativefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

operative| Business English

operative
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒpərətɪv/us
HR,WORKPLACE
aworker:
adatabase/call-centre/factoryoperative
operative
adjective
uk
/ˈɒpərətɪv/us
workingor being used:
Theagreementwill notbecomeoperative until allmembershavesigned.
Thegreenlightcomes on when themachineis operative.
(Definition ofoperativefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoperative

operative
This must be the ultimate goal foroperativetreatment.
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The therapeutic options for early and late postoperative thrombosis areoperativeremoval or thrombolytic therapy.
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Refinements inoperativetechnique and perioperative management have been largely responsible for this improved outlook.
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These principles may beoperativein the use of token economies with so-called "treatment-refractory" schizophrenia patients.
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Second, there was a positiveoperativemortality for both emergency and elective surgery patients (38% and 4%, respectively).
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These possibilities are not mutually exclusive, of course, and both could beoperativefor any given substrate polypeptide.
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Why did the fears becomeoperativeat this time?
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In our experience, it is the patient with unequal orifices in whom the preoperative (and in one caseoperative) diagnosis is difficult to make.
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Operativedenitions of "coercion" have been critically important in this debate.
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To muster support, therefore, new frames must respond to those alreadyoperative.
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Moreover, these deficits areoperativeirrespective of maternal depression.
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