Meaning & use
daily operations
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Meanings
nounpluralbusiness
The ordinary tasks and activities that a business or organization carries out every day in order to keep working.
Grammar: Used as a plural noun; it takes a plural verb and is usually preceded by 'the' or a possessive.
Patterns
- the daily operations of something
- run/manage daily operations
- be responsible for daily operations
The manager is responsible for the daily operations of the hotel.
She handles daily operations while the owner deals with new clients.
After the merger, daily operations continued without much change.
nounpluraltechnical
The routine activities that keep a machine, system, or service working each day.
Grammar: Also plural; often followed by 'of' plus the thing being run.
Patterns
- daily operations of a system
- monitor daily operations
Engineers monitor the daily operations of the water plant.
The software helps hospitals track the daily operations of their equipment.
Common combinations
- run daily operations
- Two supervisors run daily operations at the factory.
- daily operations manager
- He was promoted to daily operations manager last spring.
- day-to-day operations
- Day-to-day operations are handled by the local team.
- oversee daily operations
- She oversees daily operations for all three branches.
- disrupt daily operations
- Heavy snow disrupted daily operations at the airport.
Synonyms and how they differ
- day-to-day operations
- Means almost the same and is more common in everyday speech; 'daily operations' sounds slightly more formal and businesslike.
- routine
- Refers to regular habits or procedures in general, not specifically to the running of an organization.
- running
- British English often uses 'the running of the business' where American English would say 'daily operations'.
Word family
- operate verb
- To work or make something work.
- operation noun
- A single activity or the act of running something.
- operational adjective
- Ready for use or related to how something works.
- operator noun
- A person who runs a machine or a business.
Commonly confused: daily operations or daily operation?
daily operations vs daily operation
The singular form usually refers to one single procedure or task, not to the whole set of routine activities; the plural 'daily operations' is the standard business phrase.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'daily operations' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Daily operations' is a plural noun phrase, so it fits after 'The' with a plural verb and can be followed by 'of': 'The daily operations of the café...'. Option 1 is wrong because the plural noun needs a plural verb ('are'), option 2 wrongly uses the phrase as a verb, and option 3 wrongly uses it as a countable object you can buy.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “daily operations”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.