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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
LyytiLUY:-teeFinnish
MphatsoMPAH-tsoSouthern African, Chewa
BorbÁLa-Hungarian
Baqi-Arabic
Koldobika-Basque
Aleks-Russian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Polish
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