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  • nounmovement, working
  • nounbusiness concern
  • nounsurgical procedure

synonyms for operations

  • action
  • activity
  • affair
  • agency
  • application
  • deal
  • effort
  • enterprise
  • exercise
  • force
  • movement
  • procedure
  • process
  • service
  • transaction
  • trip
  • use
  • work
  • act
  • ballgame
  • bit
  • conveyance
  • course
  • deed
  • effect
  • employment
  • engagement
  • exercising
  • exertion
  • exploitation
  • handiwork
  • happening
  • influence
  • instrumentality
  • labor
  • manipulation
  • motion
  • performance
  • play
  • proceeding
  • progress
  • progression
  • scene
  • transference
  • undertaking
  • workmanship
  • carrying on
  • doing
On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to operations, such as: affair, use, transaction, force, deal, and service.

antonyms for operations

MOST RELEVANT
  • cessation
  • idleness
  • inaction
  • inactivity
  • indolence
  • inertia
  • laziness
  • passivity
  • stoppage
  • repose
  • rest
  • inutility
  • uselessness
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How to use operations in a sentence

All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
This short interval had more than sufficed for De Lucenay's mysterious operations.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS
Devoted to the task that he had inflicted upon himself, he grudged every hour that kept him from the field of operations.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
Of course, the usual international operations for obtaining gold were denied to Germany.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS
But all these fiscal operations should be, for our present purposes, separated from monetary operations.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS
The two armies for the time being lay opposite to each other, too exhausted after the struggle to recommence operations.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
In the diagram the horizontal arrows represent such mere banking operations, not true circulation.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS
The operations under the scheme began in August, 1878, when the houses in New Street were pulled down.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL
We show the Navy all our important operations cables; they have their own ways of doing things and don't open out so freely.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
His mind had suspended its operations, whilst his physical eye stared upon vacancy.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
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