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The definition of an operator is someone who controls a machine, or the manager or owner of a business.
(noun)- An example of an operator is a person who controls a telephone switchboard.
- An example of an operator is someone who controls a crane at a loading dock.
- An example of an operator is a person who runs a pest control business.
An operator is defined as someone who is shrewd or manages difficulties easily.
(noun)- An example of an operator is a person who is an aggressive stock trader.
- An example of an operator is a man who can get a woman's phone number at a bar.
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See operator in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a person who operates; specif.,
- a person who effects something; agent
- ☆ a person whose work is operating a machine; specif., a person who operates a telephone switchboard: a telephone operator
- ☆ a person engaged in financial, commercial, or industrial operations; owner or manager of a mine, railroad, factory, etc.
- ☆ Slang a clever, persuasive person who generally manages to achieve his or her ends
- Math. any symbol or term conventionally indicating that a certain process, substitution, etc. is to be carried out
See operator in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- One who operates a machine or device: a switchboard operator.
- The owner or manager of a business or an industrial enterprise.
- One who deals aggressively in stocks or commodities.
- Informal A person who is adept at accomplishing goals through shrewd or unscrupulous maneuvers.
- Mathematics A function, especially one from a set to itself, such as differentiation of a differentiable function or rotation of a vector.
- A logical operator.
- Genetics A chromosomal segment of DNA that regulates the activity of the structural genes of an operon by interacting with a specific repressor.
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