Field and Operations

Field

Field noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.
Usage example: in the classroom the general had been a brilliant theoretician, but in the field he proved to be a wholly incompetent tactician

Operations and field are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operations" instead a noun "Field".

Nearby Words: fielded, fielding, fielder

Operations

Operations noun - Financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records.

Field and operations are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Field" instead a noun "Operations".

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Iran–Iraq War The Iraqi General Staff decided to centralize control and write out the "script" for offensive operations, rather than the decentralized approach (let the field commanders do as they wish) which led to ineffectiveness in earlier operations of the war.
  • Film / Assassins Hollywood Law: Interpol does not have field agents and cannot arrest anyone, so there are no gun-wielding sting operations.
  • Assassins portrays Interpol as having armed field agents conducting sting operations.
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