Operatives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPERATIVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OPERATIVE, a worker, esp. one with special skills
• a worker, especially one in a manufacturing industry
• a secret agent or private detective
ADJECTIVE:
• functioning or having effect
• (of a word) having the most significance in a phrase or sentence
• relating to surgery
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• producing an appropriate effect; efficacious; most significant or essential

Words related to OPERATIVES

operative14

Words that contain OPERATIVES

cooperatives19 noncooperatives22 interoperatives20

How to use OPERATIVES in a sentence

• Before attempting to tell something of what I saw whilst wandering amongst the poor operatives of Preston, I will say at once, that I do not intend to meddle with statistics.
• They had three female lodgers, factory operatives, out of work.
• I know that many of these are unemployed operatives trying to make an honest penny in this manner till better days return.
• In consequence of which, at then existing tariffs, bread became yearly still dearer, which bore hard on the manufacturing operatives.
• Of the twenty-five thousand souls who inhabit that city, ten thousand are operatives in the factories.
• It is known that some twenty years ago a thrill of horror shot through all Anglo-Saxondom at the reported physical condition of the operatives in English mines and factories.
• January 1, 1891, there were 127 mills, with 117,922 operatives, representing an investment of L7,844,000.
• The operatives, of which one contains eighty, and the other nearly as many, are all black and colored.
• Two other persons, two of his most intelligent operatives, Thomas Dean and Jane Strong, had set out on a motorcycle to shadow them.
• Barrows, at Willimantic, in Connecticut, have all succeeded in restoring the past conditions of native American labor among operatives, now, for the most part, of alien origin.
• Luke Melville, pastor of the North End Mission Church, and attended by all the neighboring families, as well as by all the operatives of the works.
• There are between six and seven thousand operatives and artisans in Medchester to-day who are without work through no fault of their own.
• Davitt was a tower of strength to us in this election, not only amongst our own people, but amongst the English factory operatives, who form the majority in Rossendale.
• They are farmers, mechanics, merchants, operatives.
• The Dillons had been placed in charge of one of the old factory tenements, now transformed into a lodging-house for unmarried operatives.
• Yet while the organization might be English, the operatives were Russians.
• Even the skilled operatives of the railroads were generally Northern men, and their desertion followed fast upon every disaster which attended the Confederate arms.
• The former turned out about fifteen hundred stands per month, and the latter only four hundred per month, for want of operatives.
• You love to read, and the manufacturing company have a good library for the operatives.
• The pamphlets have been distributed with devilish ingenuity among all national operatives, the army and the navy.
• It came out that they both knew of the acts of Lydane and his companion in crime, and that the two officials realized the mistake that had been made by their clumsy operatives.
• There was no money to put into such undertakings and no operatives to work the mills if they had been built.
• In both cases the large heads are delivered in such a condition that the operatives can split them up into pieces of a suitable size quite freely.
• The trade depression in the Bradford district tempted disreputable woollen manufacturers to force on their operatives the products of the factory as part payment of wages.
• Most of operatives who live on their daily wages, do nothing more than earn their victuals and clothes, and slaves are generally as well clothed, and better fed than they are.
• The mills give employment to thirteen thousand female operatives and ten thousand male operatives.
• There are several establishments in the city, for the manufacture of rubber goods of every variety, and many hundred operatives find employment therein.
• In most of the New England factories, the operatives were taxed for the support of religion.
• In 1865 women operatives in the factories of Massachusetts were 32,239, or nineteen per cent of men operatives.
• It was now noon, streets filled with files and lines of freed operatives.
• Opposite are the three men operatives, flannel-shirted and dirty.

Similar words containing OPERATIVE without suffix s

operative14 cooperative18 inoperative16 operatively19 unoperative16 cooperatives19 nonoperative17 preoperative19 cooperatively23 operativeness18 postoperative20 uncooperative20 perioperative20 interoperative19 noncooperative21 preoperatively24 cooperativeness22 inoperativeness20 operativenesses20 postoperatively25 uncooperatively25 noncooperatives22 interoperatives20 cooperativenesses24 inoperativenesses22

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