0 a worker, especially one who is skilled in working with their hands -- 工人；（尤指）技工
a factory operative 工廠技工
a CIA operative 中央情報局特工
1 working or being used -- 有效的；實施中的；使用中的
2 relating to a medical operation -- 和手術有關的
an operative technique 手術技術
This must be the ultimate goal for operative treatment.
The therapeutic options for early and late postoperative thrombosis are operative removal or thrombolytic therapy.
Refinements in operative technique and perioperative management have been largely responsible for this improved outlook.
These principles may be operative in the use of token economies with so-called "treatment-refractory" schizophrenia patients.
Second, there was a positive operative mortality for both emergency and elective surgery patients (38% and 4%, respectively).
These possibilities are not mutually exclusive, of course, and both could be operative for any given substrate polypeptide.
Why did the fears become operative at this time?
In our experience, it is the patient with unequal orifices in whom the preoperative (and in one case operative) diagnosis is difficult to make.
