operation, n.Definitions

The Operation's most important result is always a live patient.

An Operation takes hours to perform and years to describe.

An Operation is something you haven't fully recovered from until you've made your last payment.

The Operation is over when the patient is eating a cheese-burger and can't remember your name.

An Operation is an assault on a fellow human being—legalised, but nonetheless an assault. In a sense, today the license to kill is given by society only to surgeons.