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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spy |
| Synonyms: | cloak-and-dagger man, double agent, informer, inside man, intelligence agent, mole, operative, scout, snoop, undercover agent, undercover man |
| Main Entry: | functioning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active |
| Synonyms: | functional, going, operating, operational, operative, running, useful, working |
| Main Entry: | going |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rust |
| Main Entry: | open-door |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open |
| Synonyms: | admissible, agreeable, allowable, approachable, appropriate, attainable, available, employable, fit, free, general, getable, nondiscriminatory, not posted, obtainable, on deck, on tap, operative, permitted, practicable, proper, public, reachable, securable, suitable, to be had, unconditional, unoccupied, unqualified, unrestricted, usable, vacant, welcoming, within reach |
| Main Entry: | roustabout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laborer |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, operative, peon*, unskilled worker, worker, working girl, working man/woman, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman, workman, workwoman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utilizable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, adaptable, advantageous, applicable, at disposal, at hand, beneficial, consumable, convenient, current, employable, exhaustible, expendable, exploitable, fit, functional, good, helpful, in order, instrumental, open, operative, practicable, practical, profitable, ready, running, serviceable, subservient, unused, useful, utile, valid, valuable, wieldy |
| Main Entry: | staff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | employees of organization |
| Synonyms: | agents, assistants, cadre, cast, crew, deputies, faculty, force, help, officers, operatives, organization, personnel, servants, shop, teachers, team, work force, workers |
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| Concept: | Agent. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager., bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum., workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout., maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright., machinist, mechanician, engineer., sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer., minister (instrument); servant; representative (commissioner), (deputy) [more]., coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae; personnel.
-phrases
quorum pars magna fui [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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