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The way that something o_______ is the way that it works or has a particular effect.The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.
Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.
How do accounting records operate?
The world of work doesn't operate that way.
...the operation of the benefit system.
word operate
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verb
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.
Until his death in 1986, Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.
...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country.
Operating costs jumped from £85.3m to £95m.
Company finance is to provide funds for the everyday operation of the business.
The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.
Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.
How do accounting records operate?
The world of work doesn't operate that way.
...the operation of the benefit system.
When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.
A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine.
The number of these machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.
...over 1,000 dials monitoring every aspect of the operation of the aeroplane.
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.
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.
If military forces are operating in a particular region, they are in that place in order to carry out their orders.
Up to ten thousand soldiers are operating in the area.
This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.
inflections operatesoperatingoperatedoperationoper8noperationoper8noperationoper8nput someone under the knife
cefr-level B2

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