Operatives
[ɔpərətɪvz]
Examples
- The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The operatives were told they could leave and take with them what cloth they could carry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Operatives, girls in many cases, handle the most terrible compounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Damn the day they named tractor factories and villages and co-operatives for you so that you are a symbol that I cannot touch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our presence did not seem to attract the attention of either the manager or the operatives, most of whom were girls. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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