Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) operation (the state of being in effect or being operative) "that rule is no longer in operation"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) operation ((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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) operation, functioning, performance (process or manner of functioning or operating) "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) operation (the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)) "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
S: (n) industry, manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale) "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
S: (n) cottage industry (small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment)
S: (n) production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale) "he introduced more efficient methods of production"
S: (n) mass production (the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques))
S: (n) brewing (the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast)
S: (n) cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))
S: (n) aquaculture (rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food)
S: (n) drip culture (a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing)
S: (n) mixed farming (growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm)
S: (n) planting (putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow) "the planting of corn is hard work"
S: (n) insemination (the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.))
S: (n) ranching (farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle))
S: (n) roundup (the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold)
S: (n) strip cropping (cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion)
S: (n) subsistence farming (farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing)
S: (n) high finance (large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical))
S: (n) investing, investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)
S: (n) arbitrage (a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price)
S: (n) risk arbitrage, takeover arbitrage (arbitrage involving risk; as in the simultaneous purchase of stock in a target company and sale of stock in its potential acquirer; if the takeover fails the arbitrageur may lose a great deal of money)
S: (n) foreign direct investment (investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business))
S: (n) leverage, leveraging (investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses))
S: (n) construction, building (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones) "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"