operations

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of operation
2. (often, plural, plural-only)Any practically minded combination of business administration, management science, operations research, systems engineering, and industrial engineering.

   “They get the job done, but operations is the area in which they're weakest.”

   “The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.”

3. (often, plural, plural-only)The department or interdepartmental team within a company that works on optimizing the company's execution of such things.

   “She works in operations, and her job involves data analysis and business intelligence.”

   “The operations center was pregnant with dread.”