VIDEO: What does operational mean?
Operative also means "surgical intervention"
Many who hear the term operationally cannot always relate to it, because it does not only have one meaning.
- The adjective operative is derived from operation, which in turn is derived from the Latin operari, which means something like to do or work. It means that something is planned and carried out in a controlled manner in order to achieve a desired result or to achieve a certain state.
- The most common meaning of the term operative is that of medicine. In medical jargon, operative means that an operation is carried out, for example, the gall bladder or the appendix is surgically removed. In this case, too, the synonym is surgical. If medical treatment is non-surgical, then it is conservative treatment.
Where else operations are carried out
However, the term operative is also used in other contexts than the medical one.
- The term is often used in a military context. The operational procedure can not only affect an act of attack, but also defense or delaying tactics.
- But the term also plays an operational role in the economic sector and is therefore frequently used in such contexts. For example, there is the so-called operative business and the operative result. The operational business of a company is the area that serves the actual purpose. The operational business of a food producer includes the manufacture and sale of the products. The operating result, also known as the operating result, denotes the difference between all income generated with the business operations minus expenses related to business operations stand. Stock transactions are therefore not part of the operating business, as they have nothing to do with the actual business purpose, so stock gains are not part of the operating result.
- Operational measures are also often referred to in other contexts, for example when agents are smuggled in somewhere. In this case, too, the aim is to carry out the espionage in a planned and controlled manner in order to achieve a desired result, for example to obtain certain information.
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