Crossword-Solution: OPERATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Operative | a. | Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. |
| Operative | a. | Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty. |
| Operative | a. | Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. |
| Operative | n. | A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with OPERATIVE (5)
Cancel is to strike out or annul, by a deliberate exercise of power, something which has operative force.
Art beauty is the embodiment, adequate, effective embodiment, of co-operative intellect and spirit,-- “the accommodation,” in Bacon’s words, “of the shows of things to the desires of the mind.” It follows that the relative merit and importance of different periods of a literature should be determined by the relative degrees of spirituality which these different periods exhibit.
She began, and told me a strange tale, which, likewise, I cannot recollect; but which, at every turn and every pause, somehow or other fixed my eyes and thoughts upon her extreme beauty; seeming always to culminate in something that had a relation, revealed or hidden, but always operative, with her own loveliness.
There is one immense store with its sign upon the roof, in letters big enough to be read miles away, “Z.C.M.I.” (Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution), while many a small, codfishy corner grocery bears the legend “Holiness to the Lord, Z.C.M.I.” But little evidence will you find in this Zion, with its fifteen thousand souls, of great wealth, though many a Saint is seeking it as keenly as any Yankee Gentile.
The landlord has long shaken his head over the manufacturer; those who do business on land have lost all trust in the virtues of the shipowner; the professions look askance upon the retail traders and have even started their co-operative stores to ruin them; and from out the smoke-wreaths of Birmingham a finger has begun to write upon the wall the condemnation of the landlord.
Quotes with OPERATIVE (3)
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly — only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeo…
Captain! To your left there’s a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who’s running tests on Lunars and I’m being held by one of Levana’s wolf hybrids and please be careful!” Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him. With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative’s grip had weakened.“Er…” Thorne furrowed his brow, aiming the gun somewhere ne…
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, NYT.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).