Definition of "operants" [operants]

• Plural form of operant. (noun)

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• "If you are an independent thinker and oppose the status quo and try to infiltrate the American political establishment, you (and your family) will be destroyed by the media and political operants."
• "This Muslim organization has ties to terrorist operants."
• "Skinner held that most human verbal behaviors are operants: they start off unconnected with any particular stimuli."