operations
- 1Plural of operation.
Two surgical operations were scheduled for the same morning.
Military operations along the border continued through the winter.
Note
Only some of operation's meanings can take this plural. The countable ones pluralize freely: planned undertakings, businesses and surgical procedures, as in two operations on one morning or a firm running several operations. The uncountable ones, such as the way a device works or the exertion of power, name a manner or process and normally stay singular. So the plural nearly always points to things that can be counted.
operations is a form of operation
operation, noun: The way something such as a machine, system, or organization works or is run, or the fact of its working or being in use. Full entry
- Forms
- operationoperations plural
- Spelling
- operation → operations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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