financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records
"The new compliance officer spent her morning reviewing operations to ensure every trade was logged correctly before market close."
plural of operation
"The new hospital opened its doors last week to begin operations on a wider range of complex surgeries."
In plain English: Operations are the main tasks or activities that an organization does to run its business.
"The hospital's operations are currently running smoothly after the staff training."
Usage: Use "operations" to refer to multiple instances of surgical procedures or several distinct business activities. Do not use it to mean a single event, which requires the singular form "operation."
Derived from Latin operatio, this term originally meant an act of working or constructing something by hand. It entered English via Old French to describe any systematic series of actions intended to achieve a specific result.