ops

1. 1
   running operationsnouncolloquialuncountable

   The day-to-day activities involved in running and managing something, such as a business or a military mission.

   After the merger, ops slowed to a crawl while the two systems were integrated.

   The ops manager rewrote the entire shipping workflow.

   UsageMostly before another noun: ops team, ops manager; or in ops. In a formal report, write operations.

   Note

   As a short form of operations it sounds brisk and insider: a company has an ops team and an ops manager, and soldiers speak of special ops and black ops. In Bungie's Halo 3 (2007), a character vows to guard the Ops Center.

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   noun

   Plural of op: operations, especially surgical or military ones, and in some contexts operators or opponents.

   The agency ran dozens of covert ops overseas during the war.

   Few details about special forces ops ever reach the public.

   Note

   One plural covers several clipped words at once. Op can be short for operation, operator or opponent, and online it can even stand for opinion, which turns up almost only in the plural. Context does the sorting: a hospital's ops are operations, while a gamer's ops are opponents. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 4 facts

   • Op can be a clipping of operation. en.wiktionary.org
   • Op can be a clipping of operator. en.wiktionary.org
   • Op can be a clipping of opponent. en.wiktionary.org
   • Op can be a clipping of opinion in Internet slang. en.wiktionary.org
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   make moderatorverb

   Third-person singular simple present of op.

   Whenever he logs in, the server ops him automatically.

   The channel founder ops only the people she trusts.

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