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in operation

in operation prepositional phrase: activated; functional; functioning; operating; working.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Activated; functional; functioning; operating; working.
    • The free market is still in operation, and the number fed from it increases weekly.December 31, 1861, "UNITED STATES STEAMER R.R. COYLER, OFF FORT PICKENS", published in The New York Times in 1862
    • When the engine is in operation, the farther this lever is moved downward toward the driver (referring to as "opening the throttle") the faster the engine runs and the greater the power furnished.1919, For Motor Company, Ford Manual/The Car and Its Operation
    Synonyms:
    in place

in operation meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

in operation in Tamil

இயங்குதல், செயற்பாட்டில் நடைமுறயில், செயல் முறையில் இருத்தல்

in operation in Malayalam

operational, working, (up and) running
പ്രവർത്തനത്തിലുള്ള, പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന, ഓടുന്ന, ധർമ്മം നിർവ്വഹിക്കുന്ന, പ്രവർത്തനശക്തി യുള്ള, പ്രവർത്തനിരതമായ

Synonyms of in operation

Questions about in operation

What does in operation mean?
In operation means activated; functional; functioning; operating; working.
What is in operation in Tamil?
In operation in Tamil is இயங்குதல், செயற்பாட்டில் நடைமுறயில், செயல் முறையில் இருத்தல். See In operation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in operation?
In operation is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in operation in the dictionary

  1. in one's teeth
  2. in one's tracks
  3. in one's wildest dreams
  4. in open court
  5. in open store
  6. in operation
  7. in order
  8. in order for
  9. in order that
  10. in order to
  11. in ordinary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in operation (page history and authors); in operation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in operation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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