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operative words: ... assertive wording; an expression or statement containing a word or phrase of emphasis that stands out in making a pertinent point, especially, one that might stand alone afterward and be understood in the same assertive context; an operative phrase using strong verbiage. An operative word makes a point; i.e., it stands out in acting purposefully and intentionally. It is an operative in the context of having force; i.e., being in effect something essential and significant. A word, or operative phrase, is key to making a statement with effective, understandable emphasis. For example, the statement: Get out!--a standalone operative phrase. Out is also the operative word, e.g.: Out! Get out. Participants in the .network mission are .network users. However, not all users are participants. We (who we are) identify a core user group. Core is the operative word. Users of The Network at the core who join in on the mission are its participants. The mission is an operative phrase that separates its participants from other .network users. The first definition of operative provided by Definitions.net states that the word refers to ... a person engaged or skilled in some branch of work, esp. productive or industrial work; worker (source of quote). Extrapolating from that, we can tag a participant in our mission as an a operative based on the definition of our core user group being people who, among other things, engage in business networking. In that regard, our meaning of mission operative identifies ... a person engaged or skilled in building and maintaining working relationships, esp. those that are productive in some aspect of the enterprise and economic development process. The Economic Development Network. one of three websites that make up The Network, has a collection of definitions of economic development under the title: About Economic Development. The collection was put together for the purpose of identifying key operative words and phrases for creating a definition that is practical and useful in a specific application, for example, to serve the purposes of a place seeking economic development. A plethora of definitions exist, otherwise. The question of whether there is an official or standardized definition of economic development has been asked. Our answer.
related: .network mission; enterprise and economic development operatives
Is there an official or standard definition of economic development? Joseph Schumpeter is credited with coining the expression economic development and giving it meaning in 1911 (see The Contribution of Joseph Schumpeter to Economics: Economic Development and Institutional Change by Richard Arena and Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer). The process, however, has roots in the Industrial Revolution. The .network glossary offers definitions of industrial development and generic industrial revolution. Many locations throughout the world seek industrial development opportunities. Those in economies shifting away from manufacturing may organize to seek other opportunities. It may be said of a location doing so that it is a place seeking economic development. Economic development as a practice began shifting focus from industrial development in many places throughout North American during the mid-1970s. A plethora of definitions of economic development have been created from the time of Schumpeter to the present, but there is no standard meaning of the practice or process. Many definitions have been created to define the wants and needs of specific communities as they pursue enterprise and economic development process opportunities or socioeconomic development objectives. Such definitions might be referred to as official under those circumstances, but that's as far as it goes. There is no overall official definition. The website of The Network, www.economicdevelopment.net, has an article title: About Economic Development. It contains a collection of definitions put together for the purpose of identifying all of the operative words and phrases that thread throughout the many which you will find by searching the Web. A few suggestions of search phrases are provided below in case you are want to query the Web. Simply copy a text line shown in italics, keeping quotation marks intact, and paste it to the search engine provided.
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