A subcontractor who may be a commercial carrier, but most often provides capacity (trucks and drivers, with or without trailers or chassis) to either commercial or private carriers under a contract for services.

(business) The business cycle from startup of operations to the profit; from obtaining the raw material, through designing and production, to the distribution and profits.

A room in a hospital used for performing surgery (originally designed for operations in front of observers).

A room in a hospital used for performing surgical operations.

Operated, or activated, by placing coins in a slot.

plural of operating system

Any simple step in a multi-step chemical engineering process; examples include distillation, evaporation, mixing, filtration, crystallization etc.

present participle of co-operate

simple past tense and past participle of cooperate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of co-operate