operator

1. (countable, uncountable)A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.

   The drone crashed because of operator error.

   The new bus operator has promised to improve the frequency of rural services.

2. (countable, uncountable)A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.

   To get an international line, you used to have to go through the operator.

   I kept getting "number unobtainable", so I called the operator to find out what was going on.

   Telefonist, Telefonistin, Vermittlung

   телефони́стtelefoníst, телефони́сткаtelefonístka, опера́торoperátor

3. (countable, uncountable)A member of a military special operations unit.

4. (countable, uncountable)A surgeon; one who performs medical operations.

5. (uncountable)The game of Chinese whispers.

6. (countable, informal, uncountable)A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

7. (countable, uncountable)A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.

8. (countable, uncountable)The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

9. (countable, uncountable)A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.

   (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation

10. (countable, uncountable)A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

    In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.

11. (countable, uncountable)A bus driver.

12. (countable, uncountable)The company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.

    someone who owns or operates a business

1. Please hang up and the operator will call you back.

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2. The operator told me to hang up and wait for a moment.

   ruОператор попросил меня оставаться на линии и подождать.

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3. Tom became good friends with the elevator operator in their hotel.

   ruТом очень подружился с лифтёром их гостиницы.

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4. The ship's captain ordered the radio operator to send a distress signal.

   ruКапитан корабля приказал радисту послать сигнал о помощи.

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5. Tom works as a forklift operator.

   ruТом работает оператором вилочного погрузчика.

   deTom arbeitet als Gabelstaplerfahrer.

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