Dictionary entry

The operative word

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

operative /'ɒpǝrǝtÇv; US -reÇt- / adj ( fml ) အသက္ဝင္ [ေသာ]။ အလုပ္လုပ္ [ေသာ]၊ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္ေသာ [ေသာ]။ This law becomes operative on 12 May. ❍ The station will be operative again in January. n ( fml ) ကာယလုပ္သား။ factory operatives. ❏ the operative word [ IDM ] ေသာ့ခ်က္ စကားလံုး။ The boss is hopping mad about it— ‘mad’ being the operative word.

Examples

  1. operative /'ɒpǝrǝtÇv; US -reÇt- / adj ( fml ) အသက္ဝင္ [ေသာ]။ အလုပ္လုပ္ [ေသာ]၊ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္ေသာ [ေသာ]။ This law becomes operative on 12 May.
  2. The station will be operative again in January. n ( fml ) ကာယလုပ္သား။ factory operatives. ❏ the operative word [ IDM ] ေသာ့ခ်က္ စကားလံုး။ The boss is hopping mad about it— ‘mad’ being the operative word.