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Definition of Operates
1. operate [v] - See also: operate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operates
Literary usage of Operates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insurance Year Book by Spectator insurance yearbook (1908)
"The company operates in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania.
... Company operates in Arizona. Idaho, Utah and BERKSHIRE, Pittsfield, Mass ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The city owns and operates its own electric-light plant and water supply. Pop.
2451. GENEVA, Neb., city and county-seat of Fillmore County, 55 miles west of ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The feeding cylinder, mounted upon timbers which have rollers, operates no
differently from what it does when mounted upon timbers which have no rollers. ..."
4. A New Law Dictionary and Institute of the Whole Law: For the Use of Students by Archibald Brown (1880)
"An appeal from a district registrar's decision operates no stay of proceedings
... An appeal to the Court of Appeal operates no stay of execution or of ..."
5. A Treatise on the Investigation of Titles to Real Estate in Ontario: With a by Edward Douglas Armour (1894)
"And, inasmuch as the statute does not specifically state which, of all the persons
mentioned, it is in whose favour the reconveyance operates, it becomes ..."
6. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"... CONSEQUENCE—THE FRENCH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON'S HIGHLAND CAMP—LETTER TO
LAFAYETTE—D'ES- TAING CO-operates WITH LINCOLN—REPULSED AT SAVANNAH WASHINGTON ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... operates to render him liable to the landlord for the rent subsequently accruing.
Hudson v. Stewart, 110 Ga. 37, 35 SE 178; Fountain v. ..."
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