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• v  direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
• v  perform as expected when applied
• v  handle and cause to function
• v  perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
• v  happen
• v  keep engaged
• v  perform surgery on
• a  involved in a kind of operation
  the operating conditions of the oxidation pond
• s  being in effect or operation
  the company had several operating divisions

• But spend more than five minutes with T-Mobile's G1, which runs on Google's new Android operating system, and you'll uncover its inner brilliance.
• By 1980, IBM had decided to build personal computers and needed a PC operating system.
• But big, complicated operating systems such as Microsoft's latest, Vista, aren't necessary in the Web Age, where applications are delivered for free and on .

• operate
• run
• function
• work
• go
• control
• manoeuver
• maneuver
• manoeuvre
• engage
• mesh
• lock
• operate on
• operational
• in operation

• malfunction
• disengage

News & Articles

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• Operating budget proposed at special meeting
  Trisha MaldonadoDouglas Dispatch The Douglas Mayor and Council along with the Douglas finance committee held a joint special meeting on May 28 on the presentation and discussion of the Fiscal Year 2013/2014 proposed operating budget.
  June 13, 2013 - Douglas Dispatch
• Heidelberg Achieves Key Milestone in Financial Year 2012/2013 with Clearly Positive Operating Result Excluding Special ...
  Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has reached a key milestone on its way to long-term profitability by meeting its own forecasts and achieving a clearly positive operating result excluding special items in financial year 2012/2013 .
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Dimock Operating to Sell East Texas and North Texas Oil Properties
  Dimock Operating Company has retained E-Spectrum Advisors LLC, an affiliate of Energy Spectrum Advisors Inc., to sell certain operated, conventional oil properties in prolific oil fields of East Texas and North Texas.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  From the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort,Obama said. "BP is operating at our direction."
• Hamid Karzai in CBC.ca
  We need your co-operation with this operation. I don't accept any excuse for not co-operating. We need bravery of the people. : We want this operation to be successful,he told several hundred political and religious leaders.