0 past simple and past participle of operate --
1 to (cause to) work, be in action or have an effect: --
Exchange rates are currently operating to the advantage of exporters.
We have representatives operating in most countries.
Changes are being introduced to make the department operate more efficiently.
For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement.
2 to cut a body open for medical reasons in order to repair, remove, or replace an unhealthy or damaged part: --
At the same time, any kind of combination of sounds will be available and the instrument will be operated very easily.
Obviously it is an oddity because of its peculiar origins and recruitment and because of the bizarre political framework in which it operated.
There were no complicating interactions so these two factors operated independently of each other.
Many were due to the fact that each programme operated independently of the other with no overall coordination.
This position has since been vindicated in so far as few now call for a return to welfare as it operated before 1996.
His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes.
And even the parts being operated on may experience geometric deviations due to subtle changes in upstream manufacturing processes.
It seeks to explain successive frameworks within which voluntary agencies have operated and draws on various formulations of coordination in social life.
