Operative is valid Scrabble Word

Is operative a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for OPERATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a worker, esp. one with special skills
a worker, especially one in a manufacturing industry
a secret agent or private detective
A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
worker with a special skill

ADJECTIVE:

having the power of operating or acting
functioning or having effect
(of a word) having the most significance in a phrase or sentence

relating to surgery
Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
being in force or having or exerting force
relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
effective; producing a desired effect
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
working

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

producing an appropriate effect; efficacious; most significant or essential

Words related to OPERATIVE

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How to use OPERATIVE in a sentence

All the resolutions he had read were operative against his own reasoning.
In fact, those are always the most operative revolutions which are brought about through social or domestic changes.
But it is very difficult to say how long ago instinctive imitation ceased and other elements are to be admitted as operative.
Not that the period ever existed when every operative mason was acquainted with, or initiated into, the speculative science.
But the operative mason required materials wherewith to construct his temple.
Freemasonry is, it is true, a speculative science, but it is a speculative science based upon an operative art.
This operative art must have given it form and features and organization.
In the middle ages gloves were worn by operative masons.
Should these fail, however, and we intend to see the finish of our case, then operative measures must be determined on.
The same influence had strengthened his natural inclination toward operative surgery, in which Dr.

At two in the morning he relieved another operative.
With regard to sobriety, it is well known that local option succeeds in closing the liquor saloons in very many operative American towns, and with the happiest results.
The same influences were active, and the same forces were operative for the greater part of the term.
He was of the easy, cultured class, as distinct from the workman or operative.
There were, in fact, two tendencies, antagonistic yet closely related, which were operative, not only in England but all over western Europe, during this period.
Elmo, were not included in the arrangement, their only part being that it required the ratification of their commander before becoming operative.
But every active operative in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago is on the lookout for a man who, if left free, will stir up a lot of trouble.
He had forgotten to send down the operative who guarded Kitty at that end.
The factors whose co-operation we observe in the second and third centuries, were already operative among the earliest Gentile Christians.
And there were some who called this a diversity of things operated rather than of operations, judging the unity of the operation solely from the operative principle.
The scientific part of the country has little influence, in this way, on the operative.
Detailed discussion of these operative treatments is outside the scope of this work, but mention is made for the sake of completeness.
And by action we are to understand not merely a visible deed, but also a word, a feeling, an idea which has in it a direct operative force.
In the legislative power as a whole are operative both the monarchical element and the executive.
The psychology of the value of self-activity is operative.
So long as the same plastic impulse continues operative it will be accompanied by knowledge and criticism of its happy results.
Puseyite Protestants tell a tale the very reverse of that so modestly told by their nominal brethren of the Dublin Operative Association.
The Indian factory operative has not yet ceased to be a man of the country rather than of the town.

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