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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undertaking, course of action |
| Synonyms: | act, action, adventure, casualty, circumstance, come off, deed, exercise, experiment, go-down, goings-on, happening, incident, maneuver, measure, move, movement, occurrence, operation, performance, procedure, process, step, transaction, venture |
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, conduct, control, coordination, direction, functioning, handling, intendance, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, superintendency, supervision, working |
| Main Entry: | system |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | method, plan |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, artifice, course of action, custom, definite plan, fashion, logical process, manner, methodicalness, methodology, mode, modus, modus operandi, operation, orderliness, orderly process, pattern, policy, practice, procedure, proceeding, process, regularity, routine, scheme, strategy, structure, systematic process, systematization, tactics, technique, theory, usage, way, wise |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganization |
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical care |
| Synonyms: | analysis, cure, diet, doctoring, healing, hospitalization, medication, medicine, operation, prescription, regimen, remedy, surgery, therapeutics, therapy |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | undertaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endeavor, attempt |
| Synonyms: | adventure, affair, business, deal, effort, engagement, enterprise, essay, experiment, game, happening, hassle, hazard, job, move, operation, outfit, play, project, proposition, pursuit, shop, striving, struggle, task, thing*, trial, try, venture, what one is into, work |
| Antonyms: | abstention |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, habitude, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | operating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | control, direction, managing, operation |
| Main Entry: | implementation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exercise |
| Synonyms: | application, discharge, employment, enjoyment, exertion, fulfillment, operation, performance, play, practice, pursuit, usage, use, utilization |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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