sting operation vs sting

sting operation and sting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sting operation	Yes	No	No	No
sting	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, sting is a hypernym of sting operation; that is, sting is a word with a broader meaning than sting operation:

sting operation: a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
sting: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Other hypernyms of sting operation include bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle.

As nouns, sting operation and sting are synonyms defined as:

sting operation and sting: operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

sting operation (noun)	sting (noun)
a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
	a mental pain or distress

sting operation (verb)	sting (verb)
	saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
	deliver a sting to
	cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	cause a stinging pain
	cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort