Synonyms:
operation
Meaning: the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
Synonyms:
operation
Meaning: a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
Synonyms:
operation
Meaning: a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
Synonyms:
operation
Meaning: (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
Synonyms:
operation, military_operation
Meaning: activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
Synonyms:
operation, surgery, surgical_operation, surgical_procedure, surgical_process
Meaning: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
Synonyms:
operation, procedure
Meaning: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
Usage examples
Four had died; three recovered without an operation.
They managed at length to agree upon a plan of operation.
The operation commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.
No other remedial means are required, much less a surgical operation.
Have you ever planned this kind of an operation or do you want me to?"
Now the species and nature of the operation is understood from the object.
Our past experience has exhibited the operation of this spirit in its full light.
For the operation belonging to anything is according to the mode of its substance.
This operation repeat till the syrup is clear--put in the fruit when the syrup is cold.
As it took many coats of paint to blot out the sign it was rather a expensive operation.