| operation | the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.), her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride |
| operation | 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 |
| rescue operation | an operation organized to free from danger or confinement |
| undercover operation | an operation involving secret work within a community or institution |
| buy-and-bust operation | an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers |
| operation procedure | 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 |
| operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | 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 |
eye operation
eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
sexhange operation
transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
Shirodkar's operation
purse-string operation | a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman, is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies |
suicide mission
martyr operation
sacrifice operation | killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself, usually accomplished with a bomb |
| sting operation | a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
riot control
riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
mathematical process
mathematical operation
operation | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods, the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation, they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic |
| arithmetic operation | a mathematical operation involving numbers |
| matrix operation | a mathematical operation involving matrices |
| operation military operation | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign), it was a joint operation of the navy and air force |
| combined operation | a military operation carried out cooperatively by two or more allied nations or a military operation carried out by coordination of sea, land, and air forces |
| maneuver manoeuvre simulated military operation | a military training exercise |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
peacekeeping
peacekeeping mission
peacekeeping operation | the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) |
| amphibious operation | a military operation by both land and sea forces |
intelligence
intelligence activity
intelligence operation | the operation of gathering information about an enemy |
| clandestine operation | an intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment |
| exfiltration operation | a clandestine rescue operation to bring a defector or refugee or an operative and family out of danger |
psychological operation
psyop | military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments |
| covert operation | an intelligence operation so planned as to permit plausible denial by the sponsor |
| black operation | a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out |
| overt operation | the collection of intelligence openly without concealment |
| operation | 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 |
field
field of operation
line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
operations
trading operations | financial transactions at a brokerage, having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records |
| smuggling | secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due |
Meuse
Meuse River
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
| Operation Desert Storm | the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted hours () |
migrant shrike
Lanius ludovicianus migrans | a shrike of central North America, winters in Texas and the southern Mississippi valley |
| base base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations, the attack wiped out our forward bases |
process
cognitive process
mental process
operation
cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity, an operation that affects mental contents, the process of thinking, the cognitive operation of remembering |
operation code
order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |
| people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively, old people, there were at least people in the audience |
business people
businesspeople | people who transact business (especially business executives) |
country people
countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
| country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
folk
folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
free
free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
color
colour
people of color
people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
| people | members of a family line, his people have been farmers for generations, are your people still alive? |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization
MKO
MEK
People's Mujahidin of Iran | a terrorist organization formed in the s by children of Iranian merchants, sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism, following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |