sophisticated operation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsophisticatedandoperation
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sophisticated
adjective
uk/səˈfɪs.tɪ.keɪ.tɪd/us/səˈfɪs.tə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having a good understanding of the way people behave and/or a good knowledge of culture ...
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operation
noun
uk/ˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the fact of operating or ...
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We installed a computer system to provide word processing and a database, which was quite an expensive andsophisticatedoperation.
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That would be a much moresophisticatedoperationthan the one in which they currently engage.
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Buying and selling is asophisticatedoperation.
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It is a highlysophisticatedoperation.
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The national criminal intelligence service is now up and running, and is providing a very effective andsophisticatedoperationof intelligence gathering for the whole country.
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Besides removal of constraints more sophisticated operations such as weakening are possible.
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During the war there was a desperate urgency and there was no time for sophisticated operations like thinning plantations.
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Having written off sophistication, when is he going to settle down and give further support for some less sophisticated operations?
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We need highly sophisticated operations and legislation to deal with them.
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Such highly sophisticated operations give to the police and armed forces a degree of power which they do not normally have in a democracy.
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Policing on the ground is just as important as other apparently more sophisticated operations.
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Such laboratories range from crude, makeshift operations using simple processes to highly sophisticated operations using technically advanced facilities.
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It is possible to perform very sophisticated operations without actually writing a new function object, simply by combining predefined function objects and function object adaptors.
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