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operator
1. Someone who operates a machine or device; a switchboard operator.
2. The owner or manager of a business or an industrial enterprise.
3. Someone who deals aggressively in stocks or commodities.
4. A person who is adept at accomplishing goals through shrewd or unscrupulous maneuvers.
5. In mathematics, a function, especially one from a set to itself; such as, differentiation of a differentiable function or rotation of a vector.
6. In genetics, a chromosomal segment of DNA that regulates the activity of the structural genes of an operon by interacting with a specific repressor.
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