What does operator mean in cooking?

operator means: Retailer who operates and owns a grocery shop. (in Cooking Dictionary)

What else does operator mean?

A person who uses a machine. (in Merlin Dictionary)

Manager or owner of a company. (in Merlin Dictionary)

Special operation: A soldier who is assigned to execute a military mission. (in Merlin Dictionary)

Person who can achieve goals by using shrewd and unscrupulous tactics. (in Merlin Dictionary)

Function, particularly one that is part of a set, like differentiation of a distinct function or rotation of an vector. (in Merlin Dictionary)

An operator that is logical. (in Merlin Dictionary)

An chromosomal DNA segment that interacts with a particular repressor to regulate the activity of structural genes in an operon. (in Merlin Dictionary)