If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation. As long as the operative word is `greed', you can't count on people keeping the costs down
being in force or having or exerting force; "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system" effective; producing a desired effect; "the operative word" of or relating to a surgical operation; "operative surgery
A system or service that is operative is working or having an effect. The commercial telephone service was no longer operative
Deney veya gözlem yapabilmek amacıyla somut karşılıkları olmayan, karmaşık, genel ya da soyut kavramların gözlemlenebilir, algılanabilir veya ölçülebilir nitelik taşıyan somut kavramlara dönüştürülmesi ile elde edilen tanım. Örn. Meslek kavramının, sosyal hayatta karşılığı olan ve yaşı, cinsiyeti, eğitim durumu veya sayısı belirlenebilecek insanlardan oluşan akademisyenlik, bankacılık, avukatlık, doktorluk gibi alt kavramlarla tanımlanması