in operation(s = adj.all) operating, operational - being in effect or operation; "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"; "bus service is in operation during the emergency"; "the company had several operating divisions"

N  action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

N  agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.

amphibious operation, arithmetic operation, asynchronous operation, auxiliary operation, binary arithmetic operation, binary operation, black operation, boolean operation, buy-and-bust operation, clandestine operation, cognitive operation, combined operation, computer operation, concurrent operation, consecutive operation, control operation, covert operation, dyadic operation, exfiltration operation, field of operation, fixed-cycle operation, floating-point operation, intelligence operation, joint operation, logic operation, logical operation, machine operation, majority operation, martyr operation, mathematical operation, matrix operation, meuse-argonne operation, military operation, monadic operation, multiplex operation, off-line operation, operation, operation code, operation desert storm, overt operation, parallel operation, peacekeeping operation, printing operation, psychological operation, purse-string operation, real-time operation, rescue operation, riot control operation, sacrifice operation, sequential operation, serial operation, sex-change operation, shirodkar's operation, simulated military operation, simultaneous operation, sting operation, surgical operation, synchronous operation, threshold operation, unary operation, undercover operation