operations
noun
Form of operation , plural of operation.
Simple meaning
The department or interdepartmental team within a company that works on optimizing the company's execution of such things.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ɑpɚˈeɪʃənz
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Definition
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noun
The department or interdepartmental team within a company that works on optimizing the company's execution of such things.
Any practically minded combination of business administration, management science, operations research, systems engineering, and industrial engineering.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Varies by meaning
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The department or interdepartmental team within a company that works on optimizing the company's execution of such things.
Used this way, operations is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in business or professional contexts.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Business/professional
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More ways to use operations
- “Our team manages the daily operations of the entire department.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
Capable of being treated by surgical operation.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
Research designed to determine most efficient way to do something.
Warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy.
A region in which active military operations are in progress.
A unit for measuring the speed of a computer system.
A region in which active military operations are in progress.
A region in which active military operations are in progress.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.
The portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed.
Loss of military equipment in field operations.
Loss of military equipment in field operations.
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