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operations
The Collaborative International Dictionary
operations \operations\ n. (Finance) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records.
Syn: trading operations.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of operation English)
WordNet
n. financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records [syn: trading operations]
Wikipedia
Operations was Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products, published from 1991 to 2010. The stated aim of Multi-Man Publishing was to have Operations be to their line of games what The General was to Avalon Hill's line of products. It was published from 1991 to 2010, when it was replaced by a new magazine called Special Ops.
Military operations is a concept and application of military science that involves planning the operations for the projected maneuvering forces' provisions, services, training, and administrative functions—to allow them to commence, insert, then egress from combat. The operations staff plays a major role in the projection of military forces in any wide spectrum of conflict; terrestrial, aerial, or naval warfare needed to achieve operational objectives in a theater of war.
The general staff of military operations deals with the planning, process, collection, and analyzing of information. Its major function is responsible in the allocating of resources and determining time requirements. It is combined with other military staff sections to achieve its primary principles in employment of military forces and materiel to meet specific missions.
The operations staff have distinct cyclic process features that are essential for military operations to progress:
- Conception through identification of specific goals or objectives
- Intelligence gathering and analysis to identify enemy capability to resist
- Planning of military force and its use
- Administration of mobilization, equipping, training and staging of forces
- Commencement of the operation, and achieving of initial tactical mission objectives
- Defeating the larger enemy forces in their operational depth
- Ending the operation whether the strategic goals have been achieved or not
Usage examples of "operations".
He noticed that his boss, Lieutenant General George Grisham, the deputy chief of staff for Operations and Plans, was already there.
I put this one here to remind all you green and blue-suit types how stupid and costly military operations can be.
The facility was smaller than Newman had thought it would be, but it looked for all intents and purposes like any other headquarters operations center-except that everyone was in civilian clothes.
While he waited for Winsat, who was the Ops & Plans administration chief, to bring down the leave papers, he called TWA Operations, Rachel's employer, at National Airport to see if they could help him make reservations for the next available flight to Albany, New York.
The actual enforcement operations will be conducted by a thirty-eight-man group of handpicked U.
As the Special Operations coordinator at HQMC, he hadn't heard about a request for Marine personnel for this kind of unit.
He had been an MH-53 Pave Low Special Operations helicopter pilot since graduating from the Air Force Academy and follow-on flight schools.
Also, as I reported to you last Thursday at our weekly meeting in the joint Operations Room-"
I have told the UN that they will be ready for operations in thirty days.
It was some six feet higher than the floor of the command center operations, giving Komulakov and other planners or decision-makers a panoramic view of what was going on.
But now, as he had just witnessed its use in the comm room of the UN Security Council Operations and Command Center, directed by a former Russian KGB agent, the significance of the event nearly bowled him over.
When the President pulled out all American troops and closed the embassy, we had to go to deep cover operations," he said.
He laid out the disposition of two Republican Guard armored-mechanized regiments and the nearest locations for Kurdish rebel operations along the southern side of Iraq's border with Turkey.
Kansi was reportedly holed up in Afghanistan, suspected of being in league with Osama bin Laden, who was known to also have terrorist operations in Sudan.
The ISEG operations plan called for the ISET in Tikrit to establish a satellite video uplink so that, in addition to the audio description of the mission, a visual record could be made, confirming the results of the UAV attack and to document every effort that had been made to avoid collateral damage.