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Generalship vs Operation - What's the difference?

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Generalship is a related term of operation.


As nouns the difference between generalship and operation

is that generalship is the position or office of a general while operation is operation (method by which a device performs its function).

generalship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The position or office of a general.
  • The term of office of a military general.
  • :George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
  • The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 277:
  • *:At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
  • *:Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship .
  • By extension, leadership, good management.
  • :Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.

    • operation

    English

    (wikipedia operation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The method by which a device performs its function.
    • It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
  • The method or practice by which actions are done.
  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • * John Locke
    • The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
  • * Dryden
    • Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
  • A planned undertaking.
    • The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
    The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
  • A business or organization.
    • We run our operation from a storefront.
    They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
  • (medicine) a surgical procedure.
    • She had an operation to remove her appendix.
  • (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
  • (military) a military campaign (e.g. )
  • (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
  • * Fuller
    • The bards had great operation on the vulgar.

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    * (mathematics) * (mathematics)

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