Governance vs Operation - What's the difference?
governance | operation |
The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
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The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
The group of people who make up an administrative body.
The state of being governed.
(management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
The method by which a device performs its function.
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
* Dryden
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
(medicine) a surgical procedure.
(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
As nouns the difference between governance and operation
is that governance is the process, or the power, of governing; government or administration while operation is operation (method by which a device performs its function).governance
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Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
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operation
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(wikipedia operation)Noun
(en noun)- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
- The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
- Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- The bards had great operation on the vulgar.