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Plural of operator

regular plural

The plural of operator is operators.

Forms of operator

Singularoperator /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/
Pluraloperators /ˈɒpəɹeɪtəz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Operators in a sentence

  • Big operators flooding the city with smack and three-quarters of the cunts we bang up are daft schemies or students with a wee bit of hash or a few pills for their pals.1998, Irvine Welsh, Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 140
  • The second thing is that smart operators like Cocky are only in it for the (huge amounts of) money.2000 May 14, John Sweeney, “Cocky”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023
  • The government warned bus operators against continuing to show bold content on buses.From the entry bold
  • The "four rules" +, -, × and ÷ are examples of binary operators.From the entry binary operator
  • In the APL programming language, some operators can be used both monadically and dyadically.From the entry monadically

Meaning of operator

  1. noun A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
  2. noun A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.
  3. noun A member of a military special operations unit.

Full definition of operator

Questions about the plural of operator

What is the plural of operator?
The plural of operator is operators.
Is operator countable?
Operator is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: operator (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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