Crossword-Solution: OPERATOR 8 letters, 81 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Operator n. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
Operator n. One who performs some act upon the human body by means of
the hand, or with instruments.
Operator n. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative
purposes; a speculator.
Operator n. The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed;
-- called also facient.

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OPERATOR anagram POORRATE

We have 81 clues for the answer “OPERATOR”

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Old phone company worker 1 answer
Person working a switchboard 1 answer
Person who's a zero? 1 answer
Person on switchboard 1 answer
Person at the controls 1 answer
Person at switchboard, etc. 1 answer
Part of B.T.O. 1 answer
Owner or manager of a mine, factory, etc. 1 answer
One whose working days are numbered 1 answer
One receiving many calls at work 1 answer
One at the switchboard 1 answer
Phone company employee 1 answer
O, on a telephone 1 answer
Number finder 1 answer
Machine worker. 1 answer
MINE owner 1 answer
Lily Tomlin's job as Ernestine 1 answer
Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, for one 1 answer
Lily Tomlin role in "Laugh-In" 1 answer
Job that's all about making connections 1 answer
I. L. G. W. U. member. 1 answer
Switchboard worker 1 answer
Sign used in mathematics 1 answer
user of machine 1 answer
someone who owns or operates a business 1 answer
person who operates a machine or instrument 1 answer
Zero personality? 1 answer
Worker 'standing by' 1 answer
Tomlin's Ernestine 1 answer
Tomlin as Ernestine 1 answer
Telephonist 1 answer
He's disconnected? 1 answer
Switchboard overseer 1 answer
Switchboard employee 1 answer
Sprint figure? 1 answer
Someone to dial 1 answer
Someone standing by? 1 answer
Smooth worker 1 answer
She runs 1 answer
Shady business man 1 answer
Responder to O on the dial 1 answer
Girl once called "central." 1 answer
"Smooth __" (Sade song) 1 answer
"Smooth __" (Sade) 1 answer
"Smooth ___" (Sade hit) 1 answer
+ or -, in math 1 answer
+ or -, to mathematicians 1 answer
0, phonewise 1 answer
1972 Jim Croce song 1 answer
A ham is one 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OPERATOR (5)

The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The Kronborgs were just sitting down to breakfast, when the night telegraph operator dashed into the yard at a run and hammered on the front door.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
This software not only contains relevance ranking, Boolean operators, and truncation, it also permits one to perform word algebra, so to say, where one puts two or three words in parentheses and links them with one Boolean operator and then a couple of words in another set of parentheses and asks for things within so many words of others.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
When they had come close enough to make us out at all, Kantos Kan’s operator received a radio-aerogram, which he immediately handed to my companion.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
They were experimenting with ship-to-shore telephony, and after setting up a circuit the operator used to say "over to condition A" (and sometimes B) which was very frustrating for me because the voices then became scrambled and quite unintelligible.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Quotes with OPERATOR (3)

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
C. S. Lewis A Grief Observed
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
Garth Nix Abhorsen
I used to think freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But freedom is the whole life of everyone. Here is what it amounts to: you have to have the right to sow what you wish to, to make shoes or coats, to bake into bread the flour ground from the grain you have sown, and to sell it or not sell it as you wish; for the lathe operator, the steelworker, and the artist it’s a matter of being able to live as you wish and work as you wish and not…
Vasily Grossman Forever Flowing
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 60 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).