operation (n.)
- accomplishment
- achievement
- act
- acta
- acting
- action
- activism
- activity
- adventure
- affair
- amputation
- appliance
- application
- attempt
- behavior
- blow
- business
- campaign
- commitment
- contract
- control
- coup
- deal
- dealings
- deed
- direction
- doing
- doings
- duty
- effectuation
- effort
- employment
- endeavor
- engagement
- enterprise
- excision
- execution
- exercise
- exercising
- exertion
- exploit
- exploitation
- feat
- function
- functioning
- gest
- go
- hand
- handiwork
- handling
- job
- logistics
- management
- maneuver
- manipulation
- measure
- mission
- motion
- move
- movement
- negotiation
- obligation
- occupation
- office
- operations
- operative
- overproduction
- passage
- performance
- plan
- play
- practice
- praxis
- procedure
- proceeding
- production
- productiveness
- program
- project
- proposition
- purpose
- realization
- removal
- resection
- role
- running
- section
- step
- stroke
- stunt
- swing
- task
- thing
- transaction
- transplant
- turn
- undertaking
- use
- using
- utilization
- venture
- work
- working
- workings
- works
operation (adj.)
With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
The tools of working our salvation
By mere mechanic operation.
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.