rescue operation

1. 1.

   an operation organized to free from danger or confinement

   Broaderoperation

Questions about rescue operation

What does rescue operation mean?

rescue operation means "an operation organized to free from danger or confinement".

Is rescue operation a common word?

rescue 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.