Operations
[,ɑpə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records.
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Examples
- In the second method both operations are performed on a single machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This we have now been doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we erected a hydraulic press. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While at Cairo I had watched with very great interest the operations of the Army of the Potomac, looking upon that as the main field of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The report from Sheridan embraced his operations up to his passing the outer defences of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Their surgeons understood the use of an?sthetics, and performed some of the most difficult operations known. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Our operations may be summed up in a few words. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have nothing but one single dye to contemplate, in order to comprehend one of the most curious operations of the understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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