Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
being in effect or operation;
- Example: "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"- Leslie Marmon Silko;
- Example: "bus service is in operation during the emergency"- Example: "the company had several operating divisions"[syn: operational, in operation(p), operating(a)]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
in operation
adj 1: being in effect or operation; "de facto apartheid is
still operational even in the `new' African nations"-
Leslie Marmon Silko; "bus service is in operation during
the emergency"; "the company had several operating
divisions" [syn: operational, in operation(p),
operating(a)]