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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Petronius	-	Ancient Roman
Jemima	jə-MIE-mə (English)	Biblical, English
Noortje	NO:R-tyə (Dutch)	Dutch, Limburgish
Sonja	ZAWN-yah (German), SON-yah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonia
Rahmİ	-	Turkish
Dani (2)	-	Hungarian, Spanish