operation
557
3.7
- noun
- /ˌɑːpəˈreɪʃən/
:
empresa
- With the expansion into international markets, the company has significantly increased its operations overseas.
- a business operation
- daily operations
- plant operations
You have to build high tech mines, mining operations now, so to speak.
- You have to build high tech mines, mining operations now, so to speak.
- Was Newegg smuggling GPUs across the border for mining operations Yet to be proven?
- It's a lot of a bigger operation and it's really, really exciting.
- If any time I have heat, I can quickly move my whole operation within a matter of hours.
- But he's now he, he loves being the COO and running operations the way that I love storytelling.
- So it's very rare that you're going to get rich off of the operations of your business.
- And about three years into honest, I learned the operations of the business completely.
- But also, I see myself as supporting a much better sort of operation than factory farming.
- He had his own special operations company that was his.
- can use this platform to see their analytics, see their entire vendor operations, um,
- Let's need that whole operation, you know, mortgage the future.
Examples
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The firm streamlined its operations to improve efficiency and reduce costs across all departments.
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Labor demands for the technified system are greater, with standardized operations homogenizing practices across borders.
Academic text (1999) -
If any time I have heat, I can quickly move my whole operation within a matter of hours.
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The learning commons has extended its hours of operation to allow more access to its physical space.
Academic text (2011) -
Under his leadership, ESEERCO grew into a $20 million operation by the early '90s.
Academic text (2011) -
First of all, we've created a highly efficient operation and we enforce strong fiscal controls.
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Amazon.com, Inc.'s assumption of sales tax collection duties coincided with the operation of a new distribution facility.
Academic text (2017) -
PARC took a unique approach to rinderpest elimination by integrating its operations with other vital services.
Academic text (2013) -
Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona: Due to population growth in the area, the operation has outgrown its cocomposting digester.
Academic text (1999) -
As a large organization, its operations require careful planning and coordination to meet customer demands.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A business that makes and sells things or offers services for money
∞
1.0
A company or shop and the people who work there
24
2.7
A very large company that does business in many countries
8
4.0
A group of people who work together for a shared purpose
3
2.9
A group that sells things or provides services and has people working in it
1
3.5
A place where people sell things or offer services, like a shop
Idioms
Compounds
10
5.0
Secret work by police or agents who hide their identity to gather evidence
- Specialized
8
4.9
A secret activity by a government to gather information about an enemy or threat
6
4.2
A military mission to stop fighting and make an area calm between groups or countries
- Archaic
6
5.7
Medical treatment with surgery and hormones that helps a person live as a different gender
3
4.1
A US-led military attack in 1991 that quickly forced Iraq's army out of Kuwait
- Formal
3
7.7
A secret activity planned and done to stay hidden, often by spies or soldiers
- Specialized
2
3.0
A medical treatment where a doctor makes a cut to fix, remove, or replace a part of the body
- Specialized
2
8.4
A military action that tries to change what people think or feel
- Jargon
1
8.4
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
- Specialized
1
8.1
A military action that lands soldiers from ships onto a shore
- Specialized
1
6.8
A calculation that uses numbers with decimals often done by a computer
- Specialized
1
3.3
A calculation with numbers like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing
- Specialized
1
3.2
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 Big
3
3.9
∞
3.7
557
3.7
∞
1.0
420
3.8
- Canadian
11
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Operation comes from Latin operari, meaning 'to work', so a business can be called an operation because it is an organised place of 'work'.