Answer to "Operates" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RUNS , but the solution may also be MANS which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in LA Times).

Operates crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
RUNS	29 %	4
USES	25 %	4
MANS	18 %	4
GOES	18 %	4
STEERS	4 %	6
MANAGES	4 %	7
WORKS	4 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Operates

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• function
• control
• work
• engage
• maneuver
• run
• manoeuvre
• lock
• mesh
• go
• operate on
• activates

Crossword Answer definitions

RUNS noun

1. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
2. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
3. A pleasure trip.
4. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
5. Migration (of fish).
6. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
7. A path taken by literal movement or figuratively
8. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
9. Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
10. State of being current; currency; popularity.
11. Continuous or sequential
12. A flow of liquid; a leak.
13. (West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
14. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
15. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
16. Any sudden large demand for something.
17. Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces
18. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
19. In sports
20. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
21. The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
22. The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
23. A pair or set of millstones.

RUNS verb

1. To move swiftly.
2. (fluids) To flow.
3. (of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
4. To control or manage, be in charge of.
5. To be a candidate in an election.
6. To make run in a race or an election.
7. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
8. To be presented in the media.
9. To print or broadcast in the media.
10. To smuggle (illegal goods).
11. To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
12. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
13. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
14. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
15. To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
16. To cost a large amount of money.
17. Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
18. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
19. To cause to enter; to thrust.
20. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
21. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
22. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
23. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
24. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
25. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
26. To control or have precedence in a card game.
27. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
28. To be popularly known; to be generally received.
29. To have growth or development.
30. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
31. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
32. To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
33. To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
34. To speedrun.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result RUNS

• Brook and rill
• Scoreboard units
• Aspires to be mayor, say
• Brave deeds?
• Does some track and field
• Pirates' accumulations
• They're always made at home
• Goes a la Coe
• Baseball stats
• Campaigns

More clues leading to the result USES

• Applications
• Takes advantage of
• Exploits
• Functions
• Makes the most of
• Partakes of
• Walks all over
• Avails
• Employs
• Manipulates for personal gain

More clues leading to the result MANS

• "The way to a __ heart..."
• Occupies, as a post
• Staffs
• Eschews robots
• Takes control
• Assigns workers to
• A __ home is
• "One __ meat..."
• "The way to a ___ heart..."
• Positions oneself at, as a weapon

More clues leading to the result GOES

• "Here __ nothing!"
• Departs
• Takes one's turn
• "Anything __"
• "Who __ there?"
• "Anything ___"
• Leaves
• Takes off
• Hits the road
• Makes a pit stop

More clues leading to the result STEERS

• They're on hooves
• Beef on the hoof
• Directs
• Manipulates
• Controls, as an Indy 500 car
• Takes the tiller
• Driven beasts
• Drives
• Navigates
• Takes the wheel

More clues leading to the result MANAGES

• Makes do
• Supervises
• Copes
• Gets by
• Runs
• Watches over
• Oversees
• Operates.
• Runs.
• Succeeds in accomplishing a task.

More clues leading to the result WORKS

• Does what it's meant to
• "Opera," literally
• Does the job
• Does the trick
• Watch's innards
• Everything, with "the"
• Operates properly
• Operates well
• Has a job
• Is in operating condition