What does sting operation mean?

sting operation means "a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sting operation?

Close synonyms include sting. 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 sting operation a common word?

sting 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.

sting operation — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
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2.
operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
“the police conducted a sting operation”
Synonymssting
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What does sting operation mean?: sting operation means "a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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