Friendly and Operative

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Friendly adjective - Having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest.

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Operative and friendly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operative" instead an adjective "Friendly".

Nearby Words: friend, friendliness, friendship

Operative adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Friendly and operative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Friendly" instead an adjective "Operative".

By contrast, they are friendly and co-operative where the title characters are suspicious rivals, and by working together they achieve things they could not have managed alone.

Source: Literature / Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
One coming from a Taliban operative that gets eliminated by friendly fire from an RPG, and the other coming from the remaining Taliban as he realizes he's going to get blown up by a nail bomb with no way out.

Source: Series / Deadliest Warrior
Unfriendly Fire and/or The Uriah Gambit: Note that the post-mission analysis does not have a spot for "X-COM Operatives Killed by X-COM Operatives." Your use of this oversight to justify friendly fire or the immediate court-martial of an alien-controlled operative will practically be a given.

Source: Video Game / X-COM

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