operation
- noun
- /ˌɑːpəˈreɪʃən/
- Much of what was done during the 2014 operation was improvised and will now become institutionalized.
- military operations
- peacekeeping operations
- conduct operations
He's the director of operations for the CIA.
- He's the director of operations for the CIA.
- So you're running combat operations straight with no break, no leave.
- You have been around Marine Special operations, you're on JSOC contracts.
- Ask yourself why the McCanns haven't asked Operation Grange to dig up the hill.
- I what happened was yeah, there was a police operation on me, right?
- El Pano, which was a former special operations from the Mexican military.
- Do you think Operation Warp Speed was a success?
- So they, they have their operations within countries, but they also cross borders.
- They couldn't put an operation together, they couldn't catch a cold.
- But holding up this relief operation really does boggle the mind.
- The first one of those is Operation Madison, Code name symbol.
- The, the operation wasn't a park in Staten Island.
- I would have made that a special operations war and that's it.
- And this is when Operation Brett the Globetrotter came in.
Examples
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But holding up this relief operation really does boggle the mind.
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In my absence, Concetta will manage all New York operations.
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My major operations are in southern California.
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So the police may know the whole operation?
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Quite a sophisticated operation you have here.
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Israeli officials would not have conducted such operations had they believed a hot war would result.
Academic text (2008) -
And I could have walked down the middle, directing the operation.
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As a whole, the IDF is designed for quick and decisive operations, at least in theory.
Academic text (2015) -
A police and coast guard search operation involving a helicopter... has been halted due to fog.
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The police conducted a thorough operation to dismantle the drug trafficking network.
Synonyms
An important task or a group sent by an organization to do it
A planned action by armed forces to achieve a goal
A task given to a group of soldiers to reach a clear goal
Idioms
Compounds
Secret work by police or agents who hide their identity to gather evidence
- Specialized
A secret activity by a government to gather information about an enemy or threat
A military mission to stop fighting and make an area calm between groups or countries
- Archaic
Medical treatment with surgery and hormones that helps a person live as a different gender
A US-led military attack in 1991 that quickly forced Iraq's army out of Kuwait
- Formal
A secret activity planned and done to stay hidden, often by spies or soldiers
- Specialized
A medical treatment where a doctor makes a cut to fix, remove, or replace a part of the body
- Specialized
A military action that tries to change what people think or feel
- Jargon
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
- Specialized
A military action that lands soldiers from ships onto a shore
- Specialized
A calculation that uses numbers with decimals often done by a computer
- Specialized
A calculation with numbers like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing
- Specialized
A calculation in math like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing numbers
- Specialized
An operation with two inputs that gives a true or false result
- Specialized
A rule that combines two values into one result, like addition or AND
- Specialized
A rule that uses true and false inputs to give a true or false result like AND, OR, NOT
A police action in which officers pretend to buy illegal drugs to arrest sellers
- Specialized
A mental process that changes information, like thinking or remembering
- Specialized
A military action done together by two or more allied countries using land, sea, and air forces
- Specialized
An action that starts, changes, or stops a device working with data
- Specialized
An action that runs without waiting for other tasks so the program keeps working
- Specialized
A task performed by equipment outside the main computer, for example a printer or external drive
- Specialized
A secret action to take someone to safety from a dangerous area
- Specialized
A secret action to send data out of a computer or network to steal it
- Specialized
An action that runs for a set number of regular time steps in machines or computers
- Specialized
A rule that gives 1 when more than half the inputs are 1 and 0 otherwise
- NSFW
An attack where someone blows themselves up to kill or hurt others for a cause
A large American attack in World War I that helped push back German soldiers
- Specialized
A math or programming action that takes only one input, like negation
- Specialized
A way of doing two or more tasks at the same time by sharing resources
- Specialized
An operation that sews the lower part of the womb closed during pregnancy to prevent early birth
- Specialized
Organized effort to recover data and restart computer systems after a computer attack or failure
- Formal
Actions that police or soldiers take to stop and control a violent crowd during a riot
- Offensive
An attack in which a person kills or injures others and also dies, usually using a bomb
- Specialized
An action done by equipment not connected to or controlled by the main computer
- Specialized
An activity by military or intelligence groups done openly, not secretly
- Specialized
Doing more than one task at the same time on computers or machines
- Specialized
Tasks happen one after another, each starting after the last finishes
- Specialized
An operation that follows a regular clock so events happen at expected times
- Specialized
A process that checks values against a set level and marks which values meet it
- Specialized
A surgical operation that puts a stitch around the cervix to stop it opening too early in pregnancy
- Specialized
A training activity where soldiers rehearse battle actions in realistic conditions without real fighting
- Formal
A planned military action with clear goals that is often secret
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Operation comes from the Latin verb operari, meaning 'to work', and is the same root as operator. That's why a military or rescue operation is a planned group 'work' to reach a goal.