Sentence examples for be operative from inspiring English sources
noun
An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
The Coombs timeline appears to be operative.
And old assumptions of what an evangelical voter actually wants may no longer be operative.
Neither conscious awareness nor intent is assumed to be operative in the mechanistic approach.
Therefore, the mirroring process may well be operative even if the facial muscles do not reflect it.
This may cause fusion reactions to occur if the nuclei ever approach close enough for it to be operative.
At some point, the auction system might cease to be operative in this particular area of the art market.
The mechanism is most likely to be operative on steep, humid, forested hillslopes with very permeable surface soils.
It will be operative by autumn 2010.
This suggests that interaction force between WO3 and PAN may be operative.
This may be indicative that additional abstraction processes may be operative.
Delamination wear is found to be operative at both track lengths and at all three frequencies.
