rescue mission

noun

1. mission ( def 16 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of rescue mission¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

He said he is worried Americans remaining in Afghanistan could soon be in a similar crisis if a more unified rescue mission is not developed.

From Washington Post

Many companies and universities have been working on robots that can take on human-supporting tasks, from monitoring health, to going on rescue missions, to just being a butler.

From Popular-Science

Days later, Tropical Storm Grace swept over the ravaged landscape, hampering the complicated search and rescue mission.

From Time

It’s a good choice for rescue missions in bad weather, like what a pilot might encounter off Alaska.

From Popular-Science

If so, archaeological director Francesco Sirano and his colleagues suggest, the man may have been a rescue mission leader who arrived just in time to die with the people he was trying to save.

From Ars Technica

Soviet leaders had already decried the rescue mission as an act of imperialist aggression.

From The Daily Beast

But it will not attempt to replicate its search-and-rescue mission.

From The Daily Beast

In the call, Obama explained that this information about the rescue mission was classified.

From The Daily Beast

Then Obama stunned John and his wife Diane, informing them of the failed special operations rescue mission from early July.

From The Daily Beast

But the Europeans had been freed in the weeks before Obama ordered the rescue mission into Syria, the Foleys said.

From The Daily Beast

Held services there, and in the evening in a Rescue Mission.

From Project Gutenberg

It formerly engaged in a rescue mission work for both men and women.

From Project Gutenberg

But the winters were so unduly harsh that the rescue mission could not break through the ice to keep the rendezvous.

From Project Gutenberg

I found the Milwaukee Rescue Mission incomplete and inadequate.

From Project Gutenberg

Not long ago a speaker in a rescue mission asked the children if they could tell him where heaven was.

From Project Gutenberg