operate against



operate against someone or something

to work against someone or something; to have a negative effect on someone or something. All of this operates against our idea affixing the garage up as a family room. The new vacation policy operates against my plan to take all of July off.
See also: operate

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Enobarbus-Literature
Purnima-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada
MillicentMIL-ə-səntEnglish
Peg[peg]
Urias-Biblical Latin
Pruitt['pru:it]