operate

operate
[[t]ɒ̱pəreɪt[/t]]
♦
operates, operating, operated
1) V-ERG If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work.

[V n] Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.

...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country...

[V-ing] Operating costs jumped from ₤85.3m to ₤95m.

Derived words:
operation [[t]ɒ̱pəre͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] N-UNCOUNT

Company finance is to provide funds for the everyday operation of the business.

2) VERB The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.

[V adv/prep] Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...

[V adv/prep] How do accounting records operate?...

[V n] The world of work doesn't operate that way.

Syn:
Derived words:
operation N-UNCOUNT oft N of n

Why is it the case that taking part-time work is made so difficult by the operation of the benefit system?

3) V-ERG When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.

[V n] A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine...

The number of fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.

Derived words:
operation N-UNCOUNT

...over 1,000 dials monitoring every aspect of the operation of the aeroplane.

4) VERB When surgeons operate on a patient in a hospital, they cut open a patient's body in order to remove, replace, or repair a diseased or damaged part.

[V on n] The surgeon who operated on the King released new details of his injuries...

You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.

5) VERB If military forces are operating in a particular region, they are in that place in order to carry out their orders.

[V prep] Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique...

[V prep] This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.


English dictionary. 2008.

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