operators
- 1Plural of operator.
Licensed tour operators must register with the local authority each year.
Skilled machine operators kept the assembly line running through the night shift.
Note
The plural is regular, adding -s, and it serves every countable sense of operator: tour and machine operators, switchboard operators connecting callers, special-operations soldiers, smooth dealers who get results by questionable means, and the functions of mathematics that carry values from one set into another. Only the name of the game of Chinese whispers stays singular, because a game's name is not counted and takes no plural.
operators is a form of operator
operator, noun: A person or organization that operates a device, system, service, or the like. Full entry
- Forms
- operatoroperators plural
- Spelling
- operator → operators: add -s
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