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Term: Operator

Term: Operator

In business, someone who delivers a product or service to an external client or who manages a group that does.

Most often used to distinguish someone from a “marketer,” who sells products or services but does not create them, or from someone providing an in-house service like accounting.

It has no negative connotations as in, “He’s such a slippery operator.”