Operatives - English meaning

noun

A person who acts on behalf of another person or group.

Usage examples:

In the event of illness, a durable power of attorney enabled her nephew to act as her agent

noun

A person who acts for or represents another

Usage examples:

A travel agent, he is the agent for several of the highest paid players in baseball., a secret agen…

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A person who is paid to buy or sell products or provide a service for a company, but who is not a regular employee

Usage examples:

Following the recent insurance scam, legislation is being put in place to ensure all agents protect…

noun

A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Usage examples:

Street markets where local artisans display handwoven textiles, painted ceramics, and leather goods

noun

A person who does skilled work with his or her hands

Usage examples:

You will learn how eighteenth-century artisans did their work.

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Someone who is skilled in making things with their hands

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State-of-the-art industrial manufacturing is complemented by the work of skilled seamstresses and a…

noun

A small hound of a breed with a short coat, used for hunting hares.

Usage examples:

Areas of disagreement is that the impact of hunting with hounds and beagles, we are not actually qu…

verb

Hunt with beagles.

Usage examples:

He used to go beagling

noun

A dog with short hair, a black, brown, and white coat, short legs, and long ears

Usage examples:

Snoopy is the world's most famous beagle.

noun

A spy engaged in counter-espionage.

Usage examples:

At the same time, they were, and still are, fascinated by the exploits of secret agents and counter…

noun

A worker skilled in a particular craft.

Usage examples:

The tiles are handmade by trained craftsmen

noun

A female worker skilled in a particular craft.

Usage examples:

The expert craftswoman teaches traditional building techniques

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A woman who is skilled, especially in making objects

Usage examples:

Her shop offers high quality gifts created by talented craftswomen.

noun

A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.

Usage examples:

Detectives are anxious to interview anyone who saw the car

noun

A police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and find out who is responsible for them

noun

A person who drives a vehicle.

Usage examples:

A taxi driver

noun

Someone who drives a motor vehicle

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A bus driver

noun

Someone who drives a vehicle

Usage examples:

You may get nothing in an accident if the other driver is uninsured., a bus/lorry/truck driver, a p…

noun

A person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures.

Usage examples:

This is important to the engineers who design and build products, because it gives them a tool to d…

verb

Design and build (a machine or structure).

Usage examples:

The men who engineered the tunnel

noun

A person specially trained to design and build machines, structures, and other things, including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings

Usage examples:

He is an engineer at a large electronics company., the bridge is engineered to withstand an earthqu…

noun

A person who gathers intelligence, especially an informer, spy, or secret agent.

noun

A person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation.

Usage examples:

Accident investigators are at the crash site

noun

A person whose job is to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. in order to discover the truth

Usage examples:

Investigators have studied the possible effects of contamination., a private investigator

noun

A person who operates a machine, especially a machine tool or a sewing machine.

Usage examples:

Big or small, companies employed mainly skilled machinists, machine operators, and precision assemb…

noun

A person whose job is operating or repairing machines

noun

Someone whose job is operating a machine in a factory

Usage examples:

She worked as a sewing machinist for 20 years., the company employs skilled machinists in its machi…

noun

A skilled worker who repairs and maintains vehicle engines and other machinery.

Usage examples:

A car mechanic

noun

Someone who repairs or works with machines, esp. as a job

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An auto mechanic

noun

Someone whose job is repairing vehicles and other machines

Usage examples:

A team of engineers and mechanics help manufacture the machines used on assembly lines., a car/moto…

noun

A small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

Usage examples:

The fur of moles is velvety and can lie equally well in any direction, which allows easy movement i…

noun

A small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin.

Usage examples:

A mole on her arm had not been there at the beginning of the summer

noun

A large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

Usage examples:

The north and south moles connect to the shore and the seabed ascends from 30m to nothing along the…

noun

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Usage examples:

Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Usage examples:

We planted a lot of fruit trees

noun

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Usage examples:

Trees cast long shadows

verb

Short for eyeshadow.

noun

An area of darkness caused when light is blocked by something, usually in a shape similar to the object that is blocking the light

Usage examples:

[ c ] chloë kept jumping on tyler’s shadow., [ u ] this corner of the room is always in shadow., [ …

noun

A person who investigates crimes; a detective.

Usage examples:

They make mi5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths

verb

Carry out a careful investigation into a crime or mystery.

Usage examples:

There's nothing you can do but sleuth around until you find the answer

noun

Someone who discovers information about crimes

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

Judge steve evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one …

verb

Frighten; unnerve.

Usage examples:

They spooked a couple of grizzly bears

noun

A person employed by a government or other organization to secretly obtain information on an enemy or competitor.

Usage examples:

They served as clerks and couriers, telephone and telegraph operators, code and cipher analysts, an…

verb

Work for a government or other organization by secretly obtaining information about enemies or competitors.

Usage examples:

He agreed to spy for the west

verb

(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors

noun

A person who does a specified type of work or who works in a specified way.

Usage examples:

A farm worker

noun

A person who is paid for using effort to do something

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Clerical/factory/farm workers, skilled/unskilled workers

noun

A person who works for a company or organization

Usage examples:

Some of the region's employers have developed shortages of high-tech workers., employers will requi…

noun

A man employed to do manual labour.

Usage examples:

The tide had reached the ship, and now the workmen labouring about the hull were ankle deep in water.

noun

A man who uses physical skill and especially his hands in doing his job

noun

A man whose job involves physical work, such as building or digging

Usage examples:

Crews of workmen shifted the tons of mud and boulders which had fallen onto the road.