Definition: 1. To work in a particular way. 2. Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.. 3. Perform as expected when applied. 4. Handle and cause to function.
Use 'operate' in a sentence:
1. We will have to operate on his eyes.
2. They plan to operate from a new office in Edinburgh.
3. The regulation operates in favour of married couples.
4. The airline operates flights to 25 countries.
5. They require an environment in which to start and operate.
6. It'll have to operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures.
7. Our modern workplaces also operate based on outdated time constraints.
8. Today's pawnbrokers operate within well-defined financial regulations.
9. How do accounting records operate?
10. Only if they operate at near capacity, otherwise, their overall efficiency is poor.
11. This lathe is easy to operate.
12. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, though cheap to operate.
13. What skills are needed to operate this machinery?
14. They operate franchises in London and Paris.
15. The patient died on the operating table.
16. Headphones are available on the bus and these are easy to operate.
17. Four horse racing tracks operate in Pennsylvania.
18. Commercial growing fields are astronomically huge and take thousands of man-hours to operate.
19. We are now operating at a loss.
20. I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behavior might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.
21. The new system will operate along the same lines as the old one.
22. France operates a system of subsidized loans to dairy farmers.
23. A courtesy bus operates between the hotel and the town centre.
24. I thought it was unethical for doctors to operate upon their families.
25. The vital task was to allow the economy to operate freely at a micro level.
26. The government revoked her husband's licence to operate migrant labour crews.
27. The doctors will operate if necessary—but it may not come to that.
28. We're operating in a dog-eat-dog world.
29. He could barely operate his wrist watch.
30. Fire crews have been operating at full stretch.
31. Our model is easy to operate and maintain.
32. You operate the trapdoor by winding this handle.
33. Illegal drinking clubs continue to operate in the city.
34. This explains the rules under which the library operates.
35. In the event of the machine not operating correctly, an error code will appear.
36. Troops are operating from bases in the north.
37. A flying doctor service operates in remote regions.
38. No government operates with a completely clean sheet.
39. But only if they operate at near capacity, otherwise, their overall efficiency is poor.
40. The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers.
41. A new late-night service is now operating.
42. The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
43. Many previously separate groups are now operating under the umbrella of a single authority.
44. Solar panels can only operate in sunlight.
45. We managed to operate a skeleton bus service during the strike.
46. Some people can only operate well under pressure.
47. These gangs operate with apparent impunity.
48. Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale.
49. What are your average operating margins?
50. They operate with little or no mechanical assistance.
51. The contract clearly specifies who can operate the machinery.
52. To make the training realistic the simulation operates in real time.
53. They now own and operate a farm 50 miles south of Rochester.
