Word Meanings - OPERANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Operative. Shak. -- n.

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• OPERATIVE
  Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all
• OPERATIVELY
  In an operative manner.
• UNOPERATIVE
  Producing no effect; inoperative. South.
• INOPERATIVE
  Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
• COOPERATIVE
  Operating jointly to the same end. Coöperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending