The phrase "as operative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is functioning or in effect, often in legal or technical discussions.
Example: "The new regulations will be considered as operative starting next month."
Alternatives: "in effect" or "currently active".
The portion of Article I, Section 8, cited above has become a dead letter, about as operative as blue laws still on the books in some American cities and towns that purport to regulate Sabbath day activities.
It is always desirable, therefore, to determine pre-operatively if chest wall invasion is present, in order to select patients as operative candidates.
Still, Fraser's artwork registers as operative rather than moralizing.
The increasing abundance of subduction-related metamorphic rocks with decreasing age in the rock record would thus reflect the gradual onset of plate tectonics as operative today.
The managers hoped that hospital disease (now known as operative sepsis infection of the blood by disease-producing microorganisms) would be greatly decreased in their new building.
A spokesman for the group, who identified himself only as "Operative A," spoke of a philosophy of "using the voice of power against itself" and compared the move to a judo throw.
Post-operative results of licentiates in Malawi are considered "comparable" to medical officers, as are operative mortality rates in Somalia.
And Miller offered insight into the real thing, noting the "waves of envy" the movie has generated as operatives wrangle over credit for felling Osama.
In order to convincingly pull off the FARC ruse, the DEA has employed former drug dealers as operatives — a practice that has come under criticism.
We know that the Khorasan group has attempted to recruit Westerners to serve as operatives or to infiltrate back into their homelands".
Rather it's occurring online as operatives of the so-called Islamic State try to encourage Muslims in the West to join them.
