OPERATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does operations mean? 

• OPERATIONS (noun)
  The noun OPERATIONS has 1 sense:

1. financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records

  Familiarity information: OPERATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPERATIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

operations; trading operations

Hypernyms ("operations" is a kind of...):

dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

The gipsies did not wait for the operations of justice; they took themselves off in a hurry.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another.

(Clock Speed, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve healthcare practice or technical operations.

(Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of well defined rules for representing quantities and operations with symbols.

(Notation, NCI Thesaurus)

The Airspace Operations Command in Brasília has kicked off operations of the Geostationary Satellite for Defense and Strategic Communications (SGDC).

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)

The distribution of resources over various time periods, products, operations, or investments.

(Allocation, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with any deviations from specifications relating to non-study device or equipment operations.

(Non-Study Device Issue, NCI Thesaurus)

Spintronics could therefore give us faster, energy-efficient computers, capable of performing more complex operations than at present.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide-Southampton line, which stands at the end of Pall Mall, if I remember right.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Network will consist of a Headquarters office that coordinates operations, a Biostatistics and Data Management Center (BDMC), and a number of participating institutions in which the studies are performed.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)