operations

1. pluralplural of operation

singular in construction

1. oftenpluralplural onlyAny 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.

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   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

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

   The operations center was pregnant with dread.

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