transcription, транскрипция: [ ɒpəreɪt ]
( operates, operating, operated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
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.
VERB : V n , V , V-ing
• op‧era‧tion
Company finance is to provide funds for the everyday operation of the business.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.
Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...
The world of work doesn’t operate that way.
VERB : V adv / prep , V n
• op‧era‧tion
Why is it the case that taking part-time work is made so difficult by the operation of the benefit system?
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n
3.
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 fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.
VERB : V n , V
• op‧era‧tion
...over 1,000 dials monitoring every aspect of the operation of the aeroplane.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
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.
VERB : V on n , V
5.
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 Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique...
VERB : V prep