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Operation (noun)
The method by which a device performs its function.
“It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.”
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Operation (noun)
The method or practice by which actions are done.
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Operation (noun)
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
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Operation (noun)
A planned undertaking.
“The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.”
“The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.”
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Operation (noun)
A business or organization.
“We run our operation from a storefront.”
“They run a multinational produce-supply operation.”
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Operation (noun)
A surgical procedure.
“She had an operation to remove her appendix.”
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Operation (noun)
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
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Operation (noun)
A military Operation Desert Storm)
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Operation (noun)
Effect produced; influence.
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Administration (noun)
The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
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Administration (noun)
A body that administers; the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
“Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.”
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Administration (noun)
The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
“the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.”
“oral administration of insulin”
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Administration (noun)
Management.
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Administration (noun)
An arrangement whereby an trading under supervision.
“The company went into voluntary administration last week.”
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Administration (noun)
the process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
“the day-to-day administration of the company”
“a career in arts administration”
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Administration (noun)
the people responsible for running a business, organization, etc.
“the university administration took their demands seriously”
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Administration (noun)
the management and disposition of the property of a deceased person, debtor, or insolvent company, by a legally appointed administrator
“the company went into administration”
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Administration (noun)
the management of public affairs; government
“the inhabitants of the island voted to remain under French administration”
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Administration (noun)
the government in power
“successive Conservative administrations enjoyed a comfortable majority”
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Administration (noun)
the term of office of a political leader or government
“the early years of the Reagan Administration”
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Administration (noun)
(in the US) a department or agency of the government
“the US Food and Drug Administration”
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Administration (noun)
the action of dispensing, giving, or applying something
“the administration of justice”
“the oral administration of the antibiotic”