trading operations vs plural

trading operations and plural both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trading operations	Yes	No	No	No
plural	Yes	Yes	No	No

trading operations (noun)	plural (noun)
financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records	the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

trading operations (adjective)	plural (adjective)
	grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
	composed of more than one member, set, or kind