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A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.

A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.

A member of a military special operations unit.

The game of Chinese whispers.

(person making deals) (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

(mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range. (Functions)

(kind of administrator, or instance thereof, on Internet Relay Chat) (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

(kind of symbol, or instance thereof, in computer programming) (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.

(kind of expression, or instance thereof, in linguistics) (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

(bus driver) (transportation) A bus driver.

(company that operates a mine) (mining) The company that operates a mine; {{ng|often the same one that owns the mine}}.

{{rfd-sense|en}}(slang) A thief or charlatan.

{{rfd-sense|en}}(slang) A major criminal.

{{rfd-sense|en}}(dated) Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.