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Definition of Operating

1. Adjective. Involved in a kind of operation. "The operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

2. Adjective. Being in effect or operation. "The company had several operating divisions"

Definition of Operating

1. Adjective. in operation ¹

2. Adjective. that operates ¹

3. Adjective. involved in an operation ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of operate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Operating

1. operate [v] - See also: operate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Operating

operant behaviour operant conditioning operantly operants operas operate operate on operated operatee operates

operatic operatic star operatical operatically operatics operating (current term) operating(a) operating-room operating-system operating-theatre

operating budget operating capability operating capital operating concept operating cost operating cycle operating expense operating expenses operating instructions operating loss

Literary usage of Operating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1910)
"The roads are grouped under the name of the operating corporation into classes as follows: (A) Line owned by the operating corporation: (a) main line, ..."

2. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1894)
"Every corporation or person operating railroads in this State, refusing to said commissioners access to the books, accounts, or papers of any railroad, ..."

3. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"[Figures iu brackets on right-hand «ide of pages indicate folios of original issue.] It is ordered, That the Classification of operating ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"AND operating-MODE SELECTION. AND AUTOMATIC QUENCH DETERMINATION. ... Now, about operating modes. A few clicks of the right knobs give you complete ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"By means of the operating pinion which is geared to the strut, and to which in turn is geared the operating mechanism, the bridge may be raised or lowered, ..."

6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... Railroad expended in Tennessee for political campaign purposes during the year 1915 and charged upon the books of that carrier to operating expenses. ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"The other end is brought to the corresponding angle of the eye and fixed to a spot on the circumference of the orbit. 65. New Method of operating for ..."

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