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Betrieb.

operating or running a technical device, application or process, in other words planful activity under the exploitation of tools, connections and/or manpower with an inherent direction towards an economic result, industry, operation, verbal noun of betreiben

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Meaning & usage

noun/bəˈtʁiːp/
  1. operating or running a technical device, application or process, in other words planful activity under the exploitation of tools, connections and/or manpower with an inherent direction towards an economic result, industry, operation, verbal noun of betreiben

    masculine · strong · uncountable
    einwandfreier Betrieb.
  2. the organizational unit of a company wherewith the entrepreneur pursues a work-technical purpose thus, works

    countable · masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

A calque of Middle Low German bedrîf, like the underlying verb betreiben (from bedrîven). The noun is closer to the Low German form because of the preserved monophthong (instead of *Betreib). See the regular development in cognate Dutch bedrijf.

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