English-Spanish translations for operation

• operación
  No se trata de una operación para reclutar a partidarios. This is not an operation to recruit supporters.
  Por supuesto, Turquía ha sido informada de la operación. Turkey has, of course, been informed of the operation.
  Pero la Operación Atalanta es insuficiente. Operation Atalanta is inadequate, however.
• cuenta
  Sin embargo, la operación de rescate también cuenta con algunos elementos absurdos. However, the so-called rescue operation also has some absurd elements.
  El Comisario De Gucht ha dado buena cuenta de las operaciones de la UE. Commissioner De Gucht gave a long account of the EU's operations.
• funcionamiento
  ¿Cómo se puso en funcionamiento? How was it put into operation?
  No hay ninguna crisis de funcionamiento cotidiano. There is no crisis of day-to-day operation.
  Dicha empresa ha estado en funcionamiento durante 16 años. This company has been in operation for 16 years.

Definition of operation

• The method by which a device performs its function
• The method or practice by which actions are done
• A planned undertaking
• A business or organization
• A surgical procedure
• a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands
• Effect produced; influence

Examples

• It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
• The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
• The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
• We run our operation from a storefront.
• They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
• She had an operation to remove her appendix.

Related words

• cooperation
• co-operation
• operational
• operationalism
• operationally
• operationalization
• reoperation
• operationism
• operationalist