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
Waldemar	vahl-DE-mahr (German, Polish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish
Karol	KAH-rawl (Polish)	Polish, Slovak, Slovene
KİRaz	-	Turkish
KoppÁNy	-	Hungarian
Suellen	soo-EL-ən	English
Chiamaka	-	Western African, Igbo