operator.
A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
Meaning & usage
A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
The drone crashed because of operator error.
The new bus operator has promised to improve the frequency of rural services.
A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.
To get an international line, you used to have to go through the operator.
I kept getting "number unobtainable", so I called the operator to find out what was going on.
A member of a military special operations unit.
A surgeon; one who performs medical operations.
The game of Chinese whispers.
A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.
The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.
A bus driver.
The company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.
A thief or charlatan.
A major criminal.
Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin operātor, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.