operator Synonyms
Another word for operator
• noun (Context 1)
A person who operates equipment, machinery, or a vehicle, especially as a profession, or who manages connections at a telephone switchboard.
"The crane driver carefully lowered the steel beam onto the top floor of the building."
• noun (Context 2)
A person or company that owns, runs, or manages a commercial enterprise, service, or facility.
"The tour manager organized all of our hotel bookings and guided excursions in Peru."
• noun (Context 3)
A symbol, character, or function denoting a specific mathematical, logical, or computing operation to be performed.
"In most programming languages, the plus sign serves as the standard addition symbol."
• noun (Context 4)
A person who acts in a shrewd, manipulative, or artful way to achieve personal goals (used informally).
"He had a reputation as a smooth schemer who could talk his way out of almost any financial bind."