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Operator Call Good Skilful Achieving Slightly Dishonest Person

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If you call someone a good o_______, you mean that they are skilful at achieving what they want, often in a slightly dishonest way.If you call someone a good operator, you mean that they are skilful at achieving what they want, often in a slightly dishonest way.
He was a smart operator. Don't underestimate him.
...one of the shrewdest political operators in the Arab World.
word operator
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noun
An operator is a person who connects phone calls at a telephone exchange or in a place such as an office or hotel .
He dialled the operator and put in a call for Rome.
An operator is a person who is employed to operate or control a machine.
...computer operators.
An operator is a person or a company that runs a business .
...'Tele-Communications', the nation's largest cable TV operator.
If you call someone a good operator, you mean that they are skilful at achieving what they want, often in a slightly dishonest way.
He was a smart operator. Don't underestimate him.
...one of the shrewdest political operators in the Arab World.
inflections operators
cefr-level B2

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