What does operating mean?

Definitions for operating
op·er·at·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. operatingadjective

    involved in a kind of operation

    "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

  2. operational, in operation(p), operating(a)adjective

    being in effect or operation

    "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"- Leslie Marmon Silko; "bus service is in operation during the emergency"; "the company had several operating divisions"

Wiktionary

  1. operatingadjective

    in operation

  2. operatingadjective

    that operates

  3. operatingadjective

    involved in an operation

ChatGPT

  1. operating

    Operating refers to the actions or processes involved in managing, controlling, or putting into use and action a particular system, machinery, business or organization. It also refers to any activities undertaken to maintain and ensure the smooth function of an operating system or environment.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'operating' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3210

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'operating' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4038

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'operating' in Nouns Frequency: #1371

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of operating in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of operating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of operating in a Sentence

  1. Tom Timko:

    We do not expect this decision to have an impact on our Venezuelan or South American operating results, nor do we believe it will affect our 2015 free cash flows.

  2. The President:

    I'm more restricted, ironically, as President of the United States than I will be as a private citizen in terms of some of the hands-on direct help I want to do, partly because of schedule and partly because of making sure that in my relationship to Kenya, I'm understood to be operating as the President of the United States.

  3. General Hospital:

    Fifty patients were seen in the ER today because of the storm, we are operating on generator power. Columbia is completely out of power.

  4. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

    Many people ask me: Why don't you conclude the deal? there is nothing more that we, who are taking part in this negotiation for four months now, night and day, want more. To conclude this deal and start operating like a normal country.

  5. Gary Gensler:

    I believe these changes will enhance the overall quality of disclosure in registration statements of offshore issuers that have affiliations with China-based operating companies.

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