The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary

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operative:

... being in effect or functioning with a desired force as in operating after a startup or after getting underway. The latter expression is anchored in nautical terminology. It doesn't necessarily imply forward motion. Anything that has a functionality or capability to operate has, in effect, to be started up. An entrepreneur starts up a venture at the point the enterprise become operative. An enterprise developer starts up an expansion at the point its operational. A site selection project may end when the location found and the deal made but the operative word is start up for enterprise developer to be satisfied that success has been achieved.

operative word / operative phrase / operative expression:

... an efficacious keyword or keywords that are most significant or essential in making a point, ergo they are seen as or used for exerting the force or influence of a statement.

See operational, operations, business operation, industrial operation

definition of operative / definition of operative word / what is an operative word

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