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
Riley	['raili]
Patti	PAT-ee	English
Eutychius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Draga	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
Ruadh	-	Irish, Scottish
Arianne	a-ree-AHN	French