What's the difference between expeditionary and operation?
Expeditionary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook wouldn’t confirm the capture, but said the goals of the new expeditionary targeting force include capturing Islamic State leaders.
(2) In September 1918, as senior consultant to the American Expeditionary Force, Cushing was in charge of organizing the neurosurgical care for the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
(3) The Pentagon announced Tuesday a new “expeditionary force” (a propaganda term to avoid saying “ground troops”) that will apparently operate apart from any Iraqi or Syrian rebel allied fighters and be able to conduct cross-border raids in either country.
(4) • A 50,000-strong expeditionary force will be formed by 2025 for deployment in crisis spots such as the Middle East.
(5) Read more Meanwhile, the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, announced that a permanent new US “expeditionary” force would operate independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time.
(6) UA air force colonel Johnny Barnes, the vice commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, told reporters Russian fighters in Syria haven’t impeded US airstrikes.
(7) That includes the Camp Lejeune marines now serving with – or soon joining – the second marine expeditionary force in Iraq; those with special purpose marine air ground task force in Afghanistan; and those among the 8,000 marines who are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.
(8) The Turks prepared to send an expeditionary force to Mecca, to crush the revolt at its source, moving an army corps to Medina by rail.
(9) So we have to expect there will be attacks.” After acknowledging Cardin’s death on Saturday, the US command in Iraq revealed on Sunday that a detachment of marines from the 26th marine expeditionary unit (MEU) has been deployed to “support … Iraqi Security Force and Coalition ground operations”.
(10) Belgium invaded and broken down - our own fine expeditionary force which King Leopold called to his rescue cut off and captured, escaping as it seemed only by a miracle and with the loss of all its equipment; our ally France out; Italy in against us; all France in the power of the enemy, all its arsenals and vast masses of military material converted to the enemy's use.
(11) The officials would not identify the militant by name or provide other details, but the raid appears to be the first major success by the Pentagon’s new expeditionary targeting force that recently began operating in Iraq.
(12) He served with the 606 Air Control Squadron in Germany and the 73rd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(13) The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for about a week for training.
(14) Corbyn is right: of course Manchester was linked to British foreign policy | Simon Jenkins Read more The “blowback theory”, which blames Islamist terrorism directly on western expeditionary warfare, is both facile and irrelevant in this case.
(15) ", the famous poster featuring Britain's secretary of state for war, Lord Kitchener, encouraged more than a million men to enlist to bolster the original expeditionary force deployed to France hopelessly unprepared and unfit for a European war.
(16) The detected differences require the development of a basically new organizational model for the provision of medical care to persons engaged in expeditionary-watch labour including mobile medical facilities (physician's ambulatory office, sanatorium department with a unit of psychophysiological relief) subordination of public health institutions to the single management cycle, introduction of a document such as "Healthbook of a watch-keeper", reorientation of northern health units to a certain volume of follow-up measures for securing continuity of observation during watch, inter-watch (home) periods, carrying out of medical examinations before and after the flights.
(17) The tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey, which can take off and land like a helicopter but has wings to fly like an airplane, had a “hard-landing mishap” about 11 am, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said.
(18) Trauma may cause morbidity or mortality in expeditionary spaceflight settings.
(19) A permanent new US “expeditionary force” will target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, operating independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time, defense secretary Ash Carter has revealed, in a significant escalation of the frontline use of American ground troops in the region.
(20) Though defence chiefs said today they will still have significant expeditionary forces, they will not be able to intervene on the scale of recent years.
Operation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(n.) The method of working; mode of action.
(n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
(n.) Effect produced; influence.
(n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
(n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.