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
Enobarbus	-	Literature
Purnima	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada
Millicent	MIL-ə-sənt	English
Peg	[peg]
Urias	-	Biblical Latin
Pruitt	['pru:it]