A task that has been assigned to a person or group

Usage examples of mission.

But only Ginaz warriors could be expected to accomplish missions such as these.

It is needless to say that I only allude to the political police, and not to the municipal police, which is indispensable for large towns, and which has the honourable mission of watching over the health and safety of the citizens.

Missions Officer her own report on the Ambrosia incident, with full details.

People would complete his mission, even if they must wrest it from his own apostate race, and die Synod had elevated the son of a lowly mining engineer to the primacy of New New Hebrides to oversee that completion.

Jose Barreda, the Father Provincial of the missions, in a curious letter under date of August 2nd, 1753, tells the Marquis of Valdelirios that he fears not only that the 30,000 Indians resident in the seven towns may rebel, but that they may be joined by the Indians of the other reductions, and that it is possible they may all apostatize and return to the woods.

Phillips, the skipper of Torpedo Six, who was assigned a liaison mission over the island.

But both VB-6 lieutenants assigned the photo mission carried it out alone and unprotected.

Nor was he the sort to risk the failure of a mission by assigning anyone to command it but the person he thought best qualified to carry it out.

Well, we send six hundred bucks a year to the First Day Antinomian Church Mission in Greenland, and they furnish all the photos and reading matter that we send out.

But he had not yet delivered his portentous message, and so he begged the phantoms to wait for him only a little while, until he fulfilled this last mission and informed the Archimage of the great danger.

The Collectivist who drove it on his suicide mission, brave with drink and the assuredness of death, had rammed the blockade at Sly Station and powered on toward Spit Bazaar, but the militia had detonated the train as it approached, tearing a hole in the stitching of arches that went the length of New Crobuzon.

This mission had initially been a simple one involving astrography charting and stellar analysis.

Navigation and Communications Division, which would have had about as much relevance to the changed circumstances as an astrolabe on the command deck of one of the Jupiter mission ships.

The barghest army offered protection and companionship, and Ulgulu, always scheming for new and more devious kills, had provided Tephanis with unending important missions.

Ennelina listened close, but later admitted she had heard some of it before rumours of my Bible were strong in the convents at which she lodged during her missions for the Beguine sisterhood.