Usually means: Person or entity managing functions.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. operator: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. operator, the operator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. operator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. operator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. operator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Operator, operator: Wordnik
  7. operator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. operator: Wiktionary
  9. operator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. operator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. operator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. operator: Dictionary.com
  13. operator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Operator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. operator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. operator: Rhymezone
  18. operator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. operator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. operator: Free Dictionary
  21. operator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. operator: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Operator: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Operator: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  5. operator: Legal dictionary
  6. Operator: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. operator: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. operator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. operator: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operator: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Operator: Biology dictionary
  4. Operator: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. -operator, operator, operator, operator: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)
  8. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operator: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. operator: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See operatorless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who operates.
noun:  A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
noun:  A member of a military special operations unit.
noun:  (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
noun:  (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
noun:  (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
noun:  (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
noun:  (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
noun:  (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
noun:  (transport) A bus driver.
noun:  (slang) A thief or charlatan.
noun:  (slang) A major criminal.
noun:  (slang, dated) Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.

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