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operated

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɒpəɹeɪtɪd//
  • United States//ˈɑpəɹeɪtɪd//

Operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy.

adjective

  1. 1

    Operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy.

  2. 2

    having undergone an operation

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of operatesimple past and past participle of operate

Forms

comparative
more operated
superlative
most operated
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).