operations

NOUN

movement, working

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action activity affair agency application deal effort enterprise exercise force movement procedure process service transaction trip use work

STRONG

act ballgame bit conveyance course deed effect employment engagement exercising exertion exploitation handiwork happening influence instrumentality labor manipulation motion performance play proceeding progress progression scene transference undertaking workmanship

WEAK

carrying on doing

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cessation idleness inaction inactivity indolence inertia laziness passivity stoppage

STRONG

repose rest

WEAK

inutility uselessness

NOUN

business concern

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affair deal enterprise transaction

STRONG

proceeding undertaking

Antonyms

WEAK

idleness inaction inutility uselessness

NOUN

surgical procedure

Synonyms

STRONGEST

surgery

STRONG

biopsy excision

Antonyms

WEAK

idleness inaction inutility uselessness

Example Sentences

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The operation's aim was to maintain the principle of freedom of speech - that people should be allowed to express their political views, so long as hate speech laws were not broken.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

“There’ll be a rabbi associated with it,” the operation’s manager said on the recording.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

The operation's name - "matryoshkas" are Russian nesting dolls - mirrors its method, which encases an original false claim in layers of ambient re-posts from old or hacked social media accounts.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

On Sunday talk shows, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was among Democrats who challenged the operation's legality.

From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026

And yet questions swirled around the operation's outcome.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau