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Operator

noun

(mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation.

An agent that operates some apparatus or machine. Synonym: manipulator.

Someone who owns or operates a business.

A shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties. Synonyms: hustler, wheeler dealer.

A speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets.

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... transplanting should always be properly done. The plants should always be taken up with as little loss of roots as possible, be kept exposed to the air as short a time as possible, and when set in the ground have the soil packed firmly about their roots, so firmly that the operator may think it is almost too firm. After setting, the surface soil should be made loose, so as to act as a mulch and prevent the loss of moisture from the packed lower layer. If the ground be dry a hole ...

— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... lawsuit, confirming as facts all that they had read in the newspapers, in short with the gold plating of respectability rubbed off his moral brass, he feels the crushing weight of the indictment, as he limps up and down his room at the mill and frets at the long-distance operator for being ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... bachelor junior oppressor possessor liquor surveyor vapor governor languor professor spectator competitor candor harbor meteor orator rumor splendor elector executor factor generator impostor innovator investor legislator narrator navigator numerator operator originator perpetrator personator predecessor protector prosecutor projector reflector regulator sailor senator separator solicitor supervisor survivor tormentor testator transgressor translator divisor director dictator denominator creator counsellor councillor administrator ...

— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody

... which he held it. His call for the house near Queen Anne's Gate had now been in for more than forty minutes; in that interval he had no less than three times pleaded its urgency to the trunk-line operator. And still the muffled bell beneath the desk ...

— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... to be about, and the busy operator did not see the visitor. A brisk young man of Scandinavian type was walking about in the larger office with a piece of chalk in his hand. He came to the desk and looked inquiringly at Bradley, who started to speak, but the sonorous voice ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

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