MILITARY OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military operation mean? 

• MILITARY OPERATION (noun)
  The noun MILITARY OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

  Familiarity information: MILITARY OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

military operation; operation

Context example:

it was a joint operation of the navy and air force

Hypernyms ("military operation" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military operation"):

combined operation (a military operation carried out cooperatively by two or more allied nations or a military operation carried out by coordination of sea, land, and air forces)

maneuver; manoeuvre; simulated military operation (a military training exercise)

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

naval campaign (an operation conducted primarily by naval forces in order to gain or extend or maintain control of the sea)

military mission; mission (an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters)

reenforcement; reinforcement; support (a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission)

attack; onrush; onset; onslaught ((military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons))

offence; offense; offensive (the action of attacking an enemy)

peacekeeping; peacekeeping mission; peacekeeping operation (the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations))

amphibious operation (a military operation by both land and sea forces)

information gathering (the act of collecting information)

psychological operation; psyop (military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments)

covert operation (an intelligence operation so planned as to permit plausible denial by the sponsor)

Instance hyponyms:

Argonne; Argonne Forest; Meuse; Meuse-Argonne; Meuse-Argonne operation; Meuse River (an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November 11)

Operation Desert Storm (the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991))