operating

Adjective

• being in effect or operation
  • de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations- Leslie Marmon Silko
    
  • bus service is in operation during the emergency
    
  • the company had several operating divisions
    

• involved in a kind of operation
  • the operating conditions of the oxidation pond
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  operational , in operation(p) , operating(a)