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.”
Operation (noun)
The method or practice by which actions are done.
Operation (noun)
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operation (noun)
A planned undertaking.
“The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.”
“The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.”
Operation (noun)
A business or organization.
“We run our operation from a storefront.”
“They run a multinational produce-supply operation.”
Operation (noun)
A surgical procedure.
“She had an operation to remove her appendix.”
Operation (noun)
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
Operation (noun)
A military Operation Desert Storm)
Operation (noun)
Effect produced; influence.
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.
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.”
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”
Administration (noun)
Management.
Administration (noun)
An arrangement whereby an trading under supervision.
“The company went into voluntary administration last week.”
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”
Administration (noun)
the people responsible for running a business, organization, etc.
“the university administration took their demands seriously”
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”
Administration (noun)
the management of public affairs; government
“the inhabitants of the island voted to remain under French administration”
Administration (noun)
the government in power
“successive Conservative administrations enjoyed a comfortable majority”
Administration (noun)
the term of office of a political leader or government
“the early years of the Reagan Administration”
Administration (noun)
(in the US) a department or agency of the government
“the US Food and Drug Administration”
Administration (noun)
the action of dispensing, giving, or applying something
“the administration of justice”
“the oral administration of the antibiotic”