Definitions For Operative
noun
- Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
- A person secretly employed in espionage for a government
adjective
- Being in force or having or exerting force
- Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
adjective
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- Effective; producing a desired effect
verb
- A person who does secret work for a government or political organization
- A person who does work that involves using tools, operating machinery, etc.
Is Operative a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
16
The word Operative is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Operative in a Sentence
- The factory must pass inspection before it becomes operative.
- The telephone system is now fully operative.
- If I go, I will bring a salad. “If,” however, is the operative word, since I am not sure that I can go.
- CIA operatives take terrible risks to find out the secrets of foreign countries.
- Set in the 1930s, the novel is about a washed-out operative working for a third-rate detective agency
Synonyms for Operative
Antonyms for Operative
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