operations
nounUK /ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃənz/ · US /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃənz/
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Often 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.2026 March 2, Haley Britzky, “No warning, no siren: Six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2026:
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Often 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.