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operations

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃənz//
  • United States//ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃənz//
  • United States//ˌɑ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃənz//
  • Canada//ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃənz//

Any practically minded combination of business administration, management science, operations research, systems engineering, and industrial engineering.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of operationplural of operation

noun

  1. 1

    Any practically minded combination of business administration, management science, operations research, systems engineering, and industrial engineering.

    They get the job done, but operations is the area in which they're weakest.

    The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

  2. 2

    The department or interdepartmental team within a company that works on optimizing the company's execution of such things.

    She works in operations, and her job involves data analysis and business intelligence.

    The operations center was pregnant with dread.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).