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Definition of Operatives
1. operative [n] - See also: operative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operatives
Literary usage of Operatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"The greater amount of loss sustained the more damaging to the constitutions of
the operatives employed. The higher the rooms of a mill and .the better their ..."
2. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"The races of Southern and Eastern Europe in 1909 supplied 34 per cent of the
total number of operatives in the Lowell cotton mills. ..."
3. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"There are symptoms of rebellion among the operatives in all quarters. At Lowell,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicopee, and elsewhere,outbreaks follow each ..."
4. British Industries: A Series of General Reviews for Business Men and Students by William James Ashley (1907)
"Then the leaders of the operatives on the Wages Board are also the head men of
the operatives' association, and they will not find money to support a ..."
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