operational
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˌɑːpəˈreɪʃənl/
- Specialized
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operacional
- Sir, I needed everyone in my squad operational, sir!
- tactical and operational
- operational level
- operational reserves
A lot of people lose sight of the fact that Zawahiri is an operational planner.
- A lot of people lose sight of the fact that Zawahiri is an operational planner.
- And it was the perfect start to to the Marines and going on an operational tour.
- All these guys who had a lot of training, a lot of the counter counter narcotics operational skills and and and experience are gone.
- So they had no operational fires, they had no surgical strike, They had no medevac, you know, air medevac.
- We had just kind of covered your first operational combat experience with the Iraq invasion.
Examples
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Yet the SADF had effective operational control of both the local and metropolitan military forces.
Academic text (1993) -
303 Polish squadron will be fully operational from the 31st of August.
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OK, we have a, we have an operational success.
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And I'll tell our friends down below they got our full operational support.
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- Can you tell us about these operational bases?
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General, two operational rockets left.
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We have to know when those missiles become operational, because when they do, we need to destroy them.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Citizen Force and Commandos served in "operational" areas for up to 3 months.
Academic text (1995) -
A number of IDF teams are conducting investigations on operational and tactical levels.
Academic text (2015) -
The soldiers are fully operational and ready for the next mission.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A small secret group that plans and carries out attacks for a terrorist group
- Specialized
Harm to military equipment like tanks during fighting or missions, not from accidents
- Specialized
A math method that turns hard equations into simpler algebra problems
- Specialized
A method that turns differential equations into algebra equations to make them easier to solve
How Implemented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Operational shares the root of operation, a word for an organised 'action' or 'task' and one used for surgeries or military moves. So an operational military unit is one that is ready to act and carry out its missions.