ಅರ್ಥ : A person secretly employed in espionage for a government.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent
ಅರ್ಥ : Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : pi, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock
ಅರ್ಥ : Being in force or having or exerting force.
							ಉದಾಹರಣೆ : 
							Operative regulations.
							The major tendencies operative in the American political system.
							
ಅರ್ಥ : Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine.
							ಉದಾಹರಣೆ : 
							A surgical appendix.
							A surgical procedure.
							Operative dentistry.
							
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : surgical
Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery.
Medical treatment.ಅರ್ಥ : Effective. Producing a desired effect.
							ಉದಾಹರಣೆ : 
							The operative word.
							
ಅರ್ಥ : (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing.
							ಉದಾಹರಣೆ : 
							In running (or working) order.
							A functional set of brakes.
							
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : functional, running, working