1. verb B2. If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work. Until his death in 1986, Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard. [VERB noun] ...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country. More @Wikipedia
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