英汉词典

1. 经营；管理；运营；运作
    If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work.

    e.g. Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.
           到他1986年去世前，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。
    e.g. ...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country...
           允许商业银行在该国开展业务