Meaning of operating in English

operating

adjective [ before noun ]

/ˈɒp.ər.eɪ.tɪŋ/ us

/ˈɑː.pər.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ/

operating adjective [before noun] (BUSINESS)

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business specialized

relating to the main business activities of a company:

operating costs The membership fees are enough to cover the operating costs of the health club.

operating profits The company aims to make at least £100 million in operating profits in its next financial year.

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The business had an operating loss of $165 million.
Operating expenses such as utilities, insurance, and repairs are tax deductible.
The group's operating budget is around $100 million.

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operating adjective [before noun] (FUNCTIONING)

working or being used:

We went to visit an operating windmill.

It was the last operating machine of its kind until it broke down last year.

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The show is being broadcast on the last operating TV station in the country.
An operating fusion reactor would work a little below ignition condition.
The company required its franchisees to purchase an operating restaurant and run it for at least a year before expanding.

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Examples of operating

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But if both processes are operating, what explanation provides a synthesis?

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Nevertheless, it creates the willingness to finance operating costs of projects undertaken.

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This was in part because it wanted to keep on good terms with the government that was operating in its interests.

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In such a situation, we can expect more than one - possibly overlapping - value system operating at the same time.

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The emerging surgeon soon realizes that technical expertise in the operating theatre is only pan of a successful outcome.

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Finding the right environmental circumstances operating at the optimal developmental stages is one of the field's essential tasks.

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This has enabled identification of risk factors operating during childhood at the expense of providing less information about risk factors associated with recent infection.

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This idea constitutes a basic compositional premise that can be observed in works written by 20th-century composers operating under a number of different artistic assumptions.

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Interactions with other factors operating in the field (particularly moisture content and anaerobic conditions) should also be ascertained.

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Clearly there are forces operating both for and against total assimilation.

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Ethical approval for the survey was obtained from the four local research ethics committees operating within the district.

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A small number only are exclusive to one or another operating system.

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They represent the basic evolutionary unit when both biological and cultural selection processes are operating in association.

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Beyond the perceived political advantages, this listing also suggests economic advantages in that municipalities will have lower operating costs and that organizational innovation will increase.

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Nonetheless, he identifies federal elements operating on two levels.

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