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operation

[op-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌɒp əˈreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
surgical procedure
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Backtrack a few years, though and he was head of Cargill’s refined oils trading operation in the Western hemisphere — with the additional responsibility of managing the company’s commodity business in Venezuela.

From MarketWatch

Citigroup isn’t just talking about slimming down its sprawling global operations.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also plans to discontinue operations at three warehouses outside Germany that external providers operate for both Zalando and About You, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal

It plans to bring in modernized manufacturing methods—such as automation and robotics—from the firm’s world-class South Korean operations.

From The Wall Street Journal

Homeland Security deployed 2,000 officers in Minnesota for its ‘largest immigration operation ever.’

From Los Angeles Times