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Definition:

someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information;

a person secretly employed in espionage for a government;

being in force or having or exerting force; "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system";

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes";

relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry";

effective; producing a desired effect; "the operative word";

of or relating to a surgical operation; "operative surgery";

Hyponyms: hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, store detective, agent-in-place, agent provocateur, provocateur, bridge agent, case officer, codetalker, windtalker, foot, NOC, spy, undercover agent, walk-in

Pertainyms: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

Anagrams: evaporite

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