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Exact Match:

operative

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"

Synonyms:

• Bow Street runner,
• CIA man,
• FBI,
• FBI agent,
• Federal,
• G-man,
• Secret Service,
• Sherlock Holmes,
• T-man,
• accessible,
• active,
• actor,
• agent,
• alive,
• architect,
• armipotent,
• artisan,
• author,
• authoritative,
• cloak-and-dagger operative,
• cogent,
• conductor,
• counterintelligence agent,
• counterspy,
• craftsman,
• craftswoman,
• creator,
• detective,
• doer,
• double agent,
• driver,
• dynamic,
• effective,
• effectual,
• efficacious,
• efficient,
• employable,
• employee,
• energetic,
• engineer,
• espionage agent,
• executant,
• executor,
• executrix,
• eye,
• fabricator,
• fed,
• forceful,
• forcible,
• functional,
• functionary,
• functioning,
• go,
• gumshoe,
• hand,
• handler,
• high-potency,
• high-powered,
• high-pressure,
• high-tension,
• hotel detective,
• house detective,
• house dick,
• in force,
• in power,
• inquiry agent,
• inside man,
• intelligence agent,
• investigator,
• irresistible,
• laborer,
• live,
• machinist,
• maker,
• manipulator,
• mechanic,
• medium,
• mighty,
• mighty in battle,
• military-intelligence man,
• mover,
• narc,
• naval-intelligence man,
• operant,
• operation,
• operational,
• operator,
• performer,
• perpetrator,
• pilot,
• plainclothesman,
• police detective,
• potent,
• powerful,
• practicable,
• practical,
• practitioner,
• prepotent,
• prime mover,
• private detective,
• private eye,
• private investigator,
• producer,
• puissant,
• reconnoiterer,
• revenuer,
• roustabout,
• ruling,
• runner,
• running,
• scout,
• secret agent,
• shamus,
• sleuth,
• spotter,
• spy,
• spy-catcher,
• steersman,
• store detective,
• striking,
• strong,
• subject,
• telling,
• treasury agent,
• undercover man,
• usable,
• valid,
• vigorous,
• vital,
• worker,
• workhand,
• working,
• workingman,
• workman