verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a machine operates/works
▪ The machine works using solar power.
a system operates/works (=exists and is used)
▪ He tried to explain how the planning system operates.
battery powered/operated
▪ A lot of children's toys are battery operated.
operate flights (=make flights available for people to use)
▪ The airline operates three flights a day between London and New York.
operate/work a machine
▪ Have you been taught to operate the machine properly?
operating expenses (=money that a company spends on running its business)
▪ We must reduce our operating expenses.
operating instructions
▪ The operating instructions have been simplified so that they are easier to follow.
operating room
operating system
operating table
operating theatre
operating/operational efficiency (=the efficiency with which a machine or system works)
▪ The computer can process this information quickly, without any loss of operating efficiency.
running/operating costs (=the amount it costs to run a business, a machine etc)
▪ The new technology is cheaper and the running costs are lower.
run/operate a scheme
▪ Parent volunteers help run the scheme.
run/operate etc at a loss (=to earn less money from something you sell than it costs you to produce it)
▪ Two of the mines are running at a loss.
run/operate/do sth on a shoestring
▪ The program was run on a shoestring.
simple to use/make/operate etc
▪ The machine is very simple to use.
trading/operating profit (=profit relating to a company’s normal activities)
▪ Both turnover and operating profits were lower.
use/run/operate a system
▪ They use a system of grades to evaluate each hospital’s performance.
▪ We operate a booking system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Sharemarket also operates a unit trust discount service for investors who have made up their own minds.
▪ We also operate a loop system for the hard-of-hearing, details of which are available at the Box Office.
▪ It also operates under other names with partners in the United States and 13 foreign countries.
▪ Then it was in the hands of the Foley family, who were also operating Guns mill at Abenhall.
▪ Since we also operate the arena, we did make money in combination with the arena.
▪ Colwyn Bay also operate their own inclusive package holiday.
▪ They would also operate an elevator, a steamboat service, restaurants, kiosks, and playgrounds.
in
▪ At least six groups are operating in and around south-east London alone.
▪ All its laws operate in and through everything, too.
▪ Such unmeasured selectivity processes are operating in most social research.
▪ Emotional centre purified allows higher emotional centre to operate in and through us.
▪ Despite all the precautions taken by owners and crews, some vessels operating in or to the Gulf had exceptionally bad luck.
▪ The variable is not the size of the organization or the economic sector it operates in.
▪ Most operate in highly polluting industries: bleaching and dyeing, electroplating and printing circuit boards.
▪ The Leader of the House may not operate in quite that way.
on
▪ I was later operated on for a tumour there.
▪ But the right thalamus sometimes gets operated on too, and the results in those patients are quite different.
▪ What we are seeing is the emergence of much more diverse and fluid organisations operating on much smaller local units.
▪ The human brain can be operated on without anesthetics.
▪ I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old.
▪ In the last few years I have had some back problems, and twice my foot has been operated on.
▪ His left shoulder, which will be operated on in December, was painful, and his confidence shot to pieces.
▪ It is also possible that the semantic and phonetic clues are in fact operated on not sequentially but simultaneously.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Most of the actual work of book provision is operated on an area basis - in common with other functions of the library service.
▪ He started thinking about Careta, who he knew was in with this car-theft ring that operated in the area.
▪ Over 90 enquiries were made about classes and the names were passed to teachers operating in these areas.
▪ Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.
▪ Until recently voluntary smoking bans had operated in most areas.
▪ Bars of the same kind operated across the downtown area.
▪ To add to our established production areas, we have begun operating in new areas and are negotiating terms for entering others.
▪ Significant advances were made since September 30 in both operating and strategic areas.
bank
▪ The banks operate the system of payment by cheques and offer a wide range of financial services to their customers.
▪ If you incur bank charges, some banks operate a slightly cheaper tariff for direct debits because they are more easily handled.
▪ Y.-based Community Bank operates 49.
▪ Some large international banks operate separate export service subsidiary companies that make credit available to overseas buyers.
▪ Is credit rationing easier to implement if banks operate as a cartel or if they are highly competitive?
▪ Our principal approach is to examine in detail the records of scores of banks operating in the period.
business
▪ It is going to fundamentally alter the rules by which which business operates.
▪ Under the old structure, the business units operated almost like separate companies, each with their own marketing and engineering organization.
▪ Downtown businesses operated sump pumps as the subsoil water level rose.
▪ One aspect of this is the environment within which the new business operates.
▪ Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary.
▪ Messaging is central to work-group computing that is changing the way businesses operate.
company
▪ Contracts have been arranged for the supply from other parts of BAe to enable the new company to operate autonomously.
▪ The company operates retail stores that sell furniture, bedding, appliances and consumer electronics.
▪ The two companies have nine operating mines and six projects under development.
▪ Managing director Joel Jervis is already negotiating with several companies operating in niche areas such as network support.
▪ The company also operates a pharmacy-benefits business, Medco.
▪ Nothing more is known about the proposal, and by 1859 the company were no longer operating from there.
▪ Right before the scheduled opening, the company that was to operate the facility became bankrupt.
firm
▪ This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover.
▪ Although most firms operate only one plant, many firms own and operate a number of plants.
▪ But eight foreign securities firms are already operating in Seoul.
▪ Although most firms operate only one plant, many firms own and operate a number of plants.
▪ Transport workers are employed in all sectors of the economy, for example in manufacturing firms who operate vehicle fleets.
▪ Business risk is the risk imposed by the business and economic environment in which the firm operates.
▪ A number of smaller firms also operate on the site.
▪ The trend toward giant law firms that operate like corporations gets much of the blame.
group
▪ Finally, we can look a little more closely at the main hotel groups operating in the United Kingdom.
▪ Every example of interest group action in this chapter has focused upon a group operating in a democratic political system.
▪ As the executive committee became more and more unwieldy, the officers' group began to operate more freely.
▪ Pupils working in pairs or groups are required to operate the equipment, and to record a commentary on to audio tape.
▪ Improvement teams are temporary groups, operating only until they have completed a project.
▪ Your library or Citizens Advice Bureau will know which groups are operating and may also have lists of private counsellors.
▪ This is the first year the company, a division of National Services Group, has operated in Florida.
level
▪ Academics are intertwined in networks which operate at different administrative levels, from the department to the institution itself.
▪ Kansas City: Factories are operating a high levels of capacity.
▪ These transition-metaphors operate at several discursive levels.
▪ Minimum operating levels are stockpiles of crude and refined products held by refiners that are considered adequate to meet average seasonal demand.
▪ Feminists have always been quick to point out the double standards which operate at virtually every level of discourse.
▪ He was not being romantic, operating on a gut level.
▪ Moreover, this skilled incompetence not only operates at the individual level, it permeates the entire organisational culture as well.
▪ Language operates at various levels of abstraction.
market
▪ Here the market mechanism appears to operate in a relatively straight forward way, but there are a number of problems.
▪ This is how markets operate the world over, but distrust of Billingsgate's dealing seems to be a problem.
▪ Due to the competitive market in which we operate, this accreditation is very important.
▪ This is a high-risk fund, which leverages its portfolio, buys emerging market debt and generally operates near the edge.
▪ The result is that the market can not operate.
▪ The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant may own the market for operating systems and business software for personal computers.
network
▪ Each branch operates a postnatal support network of one-to-one friendship.
▪ AlterNet operates its own network and maintains direct connections to most other component networks of the Internet.
▪ Secondly the lowering of trans-ocean communications tariffs may make global data pipelines nearly as cheap to operate as national networks.
▪ Railway work is governed by complex rules and regulations stemming from the safety and technical requirements of operating the railway network.
▪ It currently receives the federal appropriations for public broadcasting and is prohibited by law from producing programs or operating a network itself.
▪ V., a nonprofit limited liability company, was formed to develop and operate the network.
▪ Orlando, Portland and GreenvilleAsheville fit our broadcasting goal of owning and operating stations with network and geographic diversity.
president
▪ He succeeds as chairman Robert J.. Lievense, who will become president and chief operating officer.
▪ Patrick Downs had been chairman and chief executive, and Daniel Downs was president and chief operating officer.
▪ Also, Gergory S.. Daily, 37, previously vice president and chief operating officer, was named president.
▪ Then there's the likely legislative context in which the next president will operate.
▪ He was succeeded by Robert Greber, who had served as president and chief operating officer.
▪ Mr Haan, 45 years old, formerly was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Durametallic.
▪ Mr Carpenter is now president and chief operating officer and spearheaded the restructuring of sunglasses production.
process
▪ This could be decomposed further into lower-level diagrams, each holding more detail of how each process operates.
▪ The very same process, operating on water instead of carbon dioxide, makes oxygen and hydrogen gas.
▪ This is probably because the solution process operates differently on covered and bare surfaces.
▪ Doing nothing when you know that the victimisation process is operating is not good enough.
▪ Management in the public sector is a highly political process, operating in the full glare of political debate and public attention.
▪ The development of this process operates in a dual way on the outlook of the imperialists.
▪ Many processes operate beyond the simple pattern matching of the individual characters.
▪ In short, the conversion process must operate with political skill and political will.
scheme
▪ Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.
▪ Benskin was convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme.
▪ MCofS would be glad to operate the scheme - to the great benefit of everybody.
▪ If class members want to operate a savings scheme for the Festival and Week-end Course, please encourage them.
▪ The company, which was established in 1990 and traded as Magna Marketing, operated a scheme which offered cars bearing advertising.
service
▪ His hated intelligence services still operate with horrific efficiency.
▪ Your management company provides management services to your operating companies and charges them for those services.
▪ An hourly service from 10.00 will operate and there will be accommodation for non-Santa passengers.
▪ Denver International must take in at least $ 304 million in revenues next year to cover annual debt service and operating costs.
▪ I can, however, comment on the general principles on which our Patient Transport Service operates.
▪ They started a postal service and operated many other businesses.
▪ First of all, the service operates strict rules concerning recruitment which are not always suited to radio.
▪ The Powered by Verio program enables companies to offer co-branded Web services using Verio's operating platform.
system
▪ A training shell is a generalised tutorial system which can operate with a variety of knowledge bases.
▪ We provide the support to get customers up and running and allow their system to operate over the Internet.
▪ How can a market system-which operates globally as well as nationally-be governed to maximise economic and social welfare?
▪ There are now an estimated 30, 000 publicly accessible bulletin board systems operating nationwide.
▪ He said he hoped auctioneers in Cumbria could find a workable system to operate the new regulations.
▪ High slack systems are those organizations operating with an abundance of resources in reasonably stable and minimally competitive environments.
▪ In its simplest form, it may be described as denoting the emotional and attitudinal environment within which a political system operates.
▪ The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that are underground.
window
▪ Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The community radio stations remain silent as they wait for laws to be passed to allow them to operate.
▪ Parties based on regional or tribal support would not be allowed to operate.
▪ The second allows women still to operate keyboards.
▪ No hotels, refreshment booths, or other places of business would be allowed to operate within its boundaries.
▪ Such a scheme will allow firms operating on the exchange to hold and transfer shares without the need for share certificates.
▪ The state is passive in the productive system, allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.
continue
▪ It plans to sell its franchises in those countries but continue to operate in partnership with Pepsico in Britain.
▪ Time Warner will continue to operate and generate revenues.
▪ It thus looks as if the traditional Paris-Bonn axis will continue to operate.
▪ The two million-member club, which provides 24-hour emergency road and towing service, will continue to operate under the Amoco name.
▪ NetWare will continue to operate with independently assigned names and addresses.
▪ It said Arcade will be headed by Heinsbroek and continue to be operated as a separate division.
▪ A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful.
▪ Goldie, who learned to speak the Tohono O'odham language, continued to operate the store after Marion died four years later.
own
▪ At least 11 companies and government agencies own and operate fiber-optic lines in San Diego today.
▪ For example, few people know the Internet is now completely owned and operated by private enterprise.
▪ It is a form of business organization wherein two or more individuals agree to own and operate a business.
▪ For example, a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations.
▪ Mariner said AmHS / Premier / SunHealth owns or operates 650 hospitals and healthcare facilities nationwide.
▪ He owns and operates an art gallery in downtown Phoenix that shows only his own work.
▪ E owns and operates seven fossil-fuel plants in Northern and Central California, all powered by natural gas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A team of three men operate the dam.
▪ Alice operates on her own time schedule.
▪ Do you know how to operate the air conditioning?
▪ Don't worry - everyone will be shown how to operate the new machines.
▪ It can be risky to operate on very old people.
▪ It took me weeks to learn to operate the VCR.
▪ Olivetti operates in all the major computer markets in the world.
▪ Our generator doesn't operate well in cold weather.
▪ Screenview are a small company operating from a converted barn in a village near Norwich.
▪ Smith was accused of operating without the knowledge of his commanding officer.
▪ The company operates fast-food restaurants in over 60 countries.
▪ The doctor says they'll have to operate straightaway, before the cancer spreads.
▪ The legislative system operates independently of the President.
▪ They had operated on him six times before he was a year old.
▪ They had to operate on my arm because it was broken in two places.
▪ They passed a cement mixer that was being operated by two men in dusty overalls.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hand-held remote control makes the device easy to operate as well.
▪ As the name implies, the sole proprietorship is owned and operated by a single individual.
▪ Courtaulds has operated a representative office in Jakarta since early 1991.
▪ If the unit fails to operate, check your construction.
▪ In London, Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester, the trade operates in a similar way.
▪ It is also possible that the semantic and phonetic clues are in fact operated on not sequentially but simultaneously.
▪ Kaohsiung operates a system whereby employees can offer operational advice regarding improvements to production methods.
▪ We excluded from our review networks that were operated on a private, for-profit basis.