Operator - English meaning

noun

A person who adapts a musical composition for performance.

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He was among the finest arrangers and orchestrators of ballet scores

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Someone who makes changes to a piece of music so that it can be played in a different way or by a different instrument

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The famous jazz musician duke ellington was a composer, arranger, and pianist., he was said to be t…

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Someone who plans, prepares for, or organizes something

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He was said to be the arranger of the deal.

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A man who works in commerce, especially at executive level.

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A man who works in business, esp. one with a job in a company

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A man who works in business, especially one with an important position in a company or who owns his own company

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A successful businessman, a good/shrewd businessman a shrewd businessman, he knew how to make a pro…

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A woman who works in commerce, especially at executive level.

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A successful and self-reliant businesswoman

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A person or firm that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labour to perform a service or do a job.

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The school meals service is provided by private contractors

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A person or company that arranges to supply materials or workers, esp. for building

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A person or company that is paid by another company to work on a particular project for a particular amount of money

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Working 24/7 is something it contractors grow used to if they want to compete.

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A person who buys and sells goods.

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A dealer in foreign stamps

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A person or company that buys and sells something

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An antiques dealer, a used-car dealer

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A company or a person that sells a particular type of product

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A car/auto/motor dealer, art/arms/scrap metal dealer, bonuses paid to city of london dealers rose s…

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A person who is in charge of an activity, department, or organization.

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The sales director

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A person in charge of an organization or of a particular part of a company’s business

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A marketing director

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One of the managers who control a company or an organization

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He became director of the new royal lyceum theatre company, serve as/act as a director she is retir…

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A person who drives a vehicle.

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A taxi driver

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Someone who drives a motor vehicle

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A bus driver

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Someone who drives a vehicle

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

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

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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).

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The men who engineered the tunnel

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

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

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A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.

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Many entrepreneurs see potential in this market

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A person who attempts to make a profit by starting a company or by operating alone in the business world, esp. when it involves taking risks

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He’s an entrepreneur who made his money in computer software.

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Someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks

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An internet/e-commerce/dotcom entrepreneur, a property/retail/technology entrepreneur, a wealthy/su…

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A person concerned in the management of large amounts of money on behalf of governments or other large organizations.

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It should attempt to present the information a financier would require to make a reasonable investm…

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Someone who controls a large amount of money and can give or lend it to people or organizations

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A person or company that controls large amounts of money, for example providing money for investment, or arranging loans to companies

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The millionaire financier agreed to invest $500 million in the ailing company., a retail/real estat…

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A person who makes arrangements for other people, especially of an illicit or devious kind.

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In any case, conference arrangements fixers had enabled labour's vociferous anti-war faction - and …

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Someone who is skilled at arranging for things to happen, sometimes in a way that is dishonest

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They chose him because of his reputation as a fixer and an expert at handling difficult situations.

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A person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas.

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Opera impresario raymond gubbay has proved to concert promoters that given the right marketing, con…

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A person who runs a business arranging different types of public entertainment, such as theatre, musical, and dance events

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A music/theatre impresario

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

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

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A person whose job is operating or repairing machines

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Someone whose job is operating a machine in a factory

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

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A person responsible for controlling or administering an organization or group of staff.

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The manager of a bar

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Someone whose job is to control or organize someone or something, esp. a business

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The manager of a supermarket, he is manager of the new york city ballet., managerial skills

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The person who is responsible for managing a company, store, etc., or a department of a company, etc.

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Effective/good/bad manager a sign of a good manager is knowing how to delegate., top/senior manager…

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A person who controls or influences others in a clever or unscrupulous way.

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His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, psychopaths, manipulators and sadists - peopl…

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

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A car mechanic

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

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An auto mechanic

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Someone whose job is repairing vehicles and other machines

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

noun

A person or thing that moves.

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She's a lovely mover

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A person or a company whose business is to move furniture and other possessions to a different place

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A company whose shares go up or down in value during a particular period, often a particular day

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Notable movers amongst the blue chips included three of the city's leading investment banks., big/m…

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Someone who is willing to make big changes to get things done

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The new director of the company is a real mover and shaker.

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Someone who is willing to make big changes to get things done

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The new director of the company is a real mover and shaker.

adjective

Functioning or having effect.

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The transmitter is operative

noun

A worker, especially one in a manufacturing industry.

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The operatives clean the machines at the end of every shift

noun

Either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.

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Arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner

verb

A friendly form of address by one man to another.

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How you doing, partner?

noun

A timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass.

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The mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been

noun

A person or company that finances or organizes a sporting event, concert, or theatrical production.

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A boxing promoter

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A person or company that organizes or finances a sports event or a performance, esp. of musical entertainment

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A person, organization, or government that tries to encourage something to happen or develop

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The country is now a leading promoter of regional trade., he was a promoter of education and the ar…

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A person who invests in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of making a profit.

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Financial speculators exploiting small changes in markets to make money

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A person who buys or does something in order to make a profit in the future

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A real estate speculator

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A person who buys goods, property, money, etc. in the hope of selling them at a profit

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A currency/land/market speculator, we should not bail out lenders, real estate speculators, or thos…

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A person who buys and sells goods, currency, or shares.

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Rogue traders who are selling fireworks to kids are likely to find themselves in hot water.

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Someone who buys and sells goods or services

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A person or company that buys and sells shares, currencies, etc.

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It resulted from trading losses in derivatives by a single trader at the firm's singapore office., …

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Someone who makes clever, complicated, and sometimes dishonest business arrangements

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He was a wheeler dealer who bought and sold items at flea markets.

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A person, especially a politician, who exerts control or influence from behind the scenes.

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These same wirepullers then used the government to push the interstate highway system on the country.

noun

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

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A farm worker

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A person who is paid for using effort to do something

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Clerical/factory/farm workers, skilled/unskilled workers

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A person who works for a company or organization

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