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noun

Operator n.

One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

(Surg.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. (Brokers' Cant)

(Math.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; called also facient.

A person who operates a telephone switchboard.

A person who schemes and maneuvers adroitly or deviously to achieve his/her purposes.

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Etymology of 'Operator'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Operator" Quotes from Famous Books

... done as E.C. held his boat well in hand. I followed, and struck rocks at the same instant on both sides of the narrow channel with my oars. It will be remembered that we ran all these dangerous rapids facing downstream. The effect of this was to shoot the ends of both oars up past my face. The operator said that I made a grimace just as he took a picture of ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

... thing for a man living in the country to do on a Sunday morning, and it is not an extraordinary costume in which to do it. It was neither the costume nor the occupation that made the operation notable, but the distinguished company who sat around the operator while it went on. ...

— The Underdog • F. Hopkinson Smith

... was air-cooled, was located forward, and was just above the heads of the operator and the passenger who sat beside him. The single propeller, which was ten feet in diameter, gave a minimum thrust of one thousand pounds at ...

— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton

... much about the spot on which the machine had landed. For a moment it was motionless; the engine had been stopped, and all was silent except for the gentle rustling of the cane in the field. The unknown operator did not change ...

— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint

... slowly as before, he tore this dispatch also across and across and dropped the pieces on the brands. When they were burned he wrote a single line, signed and folded it, and gave it to the courier. The latter, in the first pink light, in the midst of a jubilant Staunton, read it to the excited operator in ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

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