Word.ws English Dictionary

lines of operations

lines of operations is the plural of line of operations.

Meaning of line of operations

Noun

line of operations (plural lines of operations)

  1. That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object.
    • As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science

Questions about lines of operations

What is lines of operations the plural of?
Lines of operations is the plural of line of operations.

Words near lines of operations in the dictionary

  1. lines of force
  2. lines of levels
  3. lines of life
  4. lines of march
  5. lines of nodes
  6. lines of operations
  7. lines of play
  8. lines of questioning
  9. lines of scrimmage
  10. lines of sight
  11. lines of striction

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lines of operations (page history and authors); line of operations (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lines of operations.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lines_of_operations. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.