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operational research

operational research is the alternative form of operations research.

Meaning of operations research

Noun

operations research (uncountable)

  1. (operations) The application of scientific methods and techniques to problems of decision making, especially in business management and government administration.

Questions about operational research

What is operational research the alternative form of?
Operational research is the alternative form of operations research.

Words near operational research in the dictionary

  1. operational definitions
  2. operational encirclement
  3. operational encirclements
  4. operational exhaustion
  5. operational fatigue
  6. operational research
  7. operational service period
  8. operational service periods
  9. operational taxonomic unit
  10. operational taxonomic units
  11. operationalisability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: operational research (page history and authors); operations research (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.

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