military operation

1. 1.

   activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

   “it was a joint operation of the navy and air force”

   Synonymsoperation

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowercombined operationmaneuvercampaignnaval campaignmissionsupportattackoffensepeacekeepingamphibious operation

   military

Questions about military operation

What does military operation mean?

military operation means "activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)".

What is another word for military operation?

Close synonyms include operation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is military operation a common word?

military operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.