mission
a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
the business with which such a group is charged.
any important task or duty that is assigned, allotted, or self-imposed: Our mission is to find the child a safe home.
an important goal or purpose that is accompanied by strong conviction; a calling or vocation: She has finally found her mission in life.
a sending or being sent for some duty or purpose.
those sent.
Also called foreign mission . a permanent diplomatic establishment abroad; embassy; legation.
Military. an operational task, usually assigned by a higher headquarters: a mission to bomb the bridge.
Aerospace. an operation designed to carry out the goals of a specific program: a space mission.
Also called foreign mission . a group of persons sent by a church to carry on religious work, especially evangelization in foreign lands, and often to establish schools, hospitals, etc.
an establishment of missionaries in a foreign land; a missionary church or station.
a similar establishment in any region.
the district assigned to a missionary.
missionary duty or work.
an organization for carrying on missionary work.
Also called rescue mission. a shelter operated by a church or other organization offering food, lodging, and other assistance to needy persons.
missions, organized missionary work or activities in any country or region.
a church or a region dependent on a larger church or denomination.
a series of special religious services for increasing religious devotion and converting unbelievers: to preach a mission.
of or relating to a mission.
(usually initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a style of American furniture of the early 20th century, created in supposed imitation of the furnishings of the Spanish missions of California and characterized by the use of dark, stained wood, by heaviness, and by extreme plainness.
Origin of mission
1Other words from mission
- mis·sion·al, adjective
Other definitions for Mission (2 of 2)
a city in S Texas.
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How to use mission in a sentence
In a Lynx, however, Harry could take part in reconnaissance missions and transport passengers.
Designed for “special missions,” the privately owned company is capable of transporting precious cargo anywhere in the world.
The American Ebola Rescue Plan Hinges on One Company. Meet Phoenix. | Abby Haglage | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOuagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is home to a strategically important base for Pentagon surveillance missions.
An African Dictatorship’s Friend in D.C. | Center for Public Integrity | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTen days later, it will start air missions using two airplanes and one helicopter.
Britain’s Let-Em-All-Die Policy | Nico Hines, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Italian Navy confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday that it will continue its missions “for the foreseeable future.”
Britain’s Let-Em-All-Die Policy | Nico Hines, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
More laborers are needed for the Jesuit missions, as well as for those conducted by the friars.
Sangley missions of the diocese of the archbishopric of Manila, and the number of souls directed in them.
Benefices and missions of the bishopric of Camarines, and the number of souls instructed therein.
In this manner might there not be made arrangements regarding missions, more solemn than has heretofore been attempted?
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamThe London Missionary Society resolved to establish missions among them.
Robert Moffat | David J. Deane
British Dictionary definitions for mission
/ (ˈmɪʃən) /
a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people: their mission was to irrigate the desert
a person's vocation (often in the phrase mission in life)
a group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc, in a foreign country
a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose
US a permanent legation
a group of people sent by a religious body, esp a Christian church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work
the campaign undertaken by such a group
the work or calling of a missionary
a building or group of buildings in which missionary work is performed
the area assigned to a particular missionary
the dispatch of aircraft or spacecraft to achieve a particular task
a church or chapel that has no incumbent of its own
a charitable centre that offers shelter, aid, or advice to the destitute or underprivileged
(modifier) of or relating to an ecclesiastical mission: a mission station
Southern African a long and difficult process
(modifier) US (of furniture) in the style of the early Spanish missions of the southwestern US
(tr) to direct a mission to or establish a mission in (a given region)
Origin of mission
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