operations research

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   research designed to determine most efficient way to do something

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Questions about operations research

What does operations research mean?

operations research means "research designed to determine most efficient way to do something".

Is operations research a common word?

operations research 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.