WordNet
n. an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station]
a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister [syn: legation]
Usage examples of "foreign mission".
On Striker's first foreign mission, he had helped them through the death of Private Bass Moore.
Thirty-eight foreign mission residences in the Nineteenth Precinct alone.
As it happens, Venandakatra's is not the only foreign mission in Constantinople at the moment.
As it happens, Venandakatras is not the only foreign mission in Constantinople at the moment.
Of the reasons for the journey, the least likely is that Edward sent him: if the King had sent the premier earl of the country on such a foreign mission, the fact must have been well known in England and either recorded at the time or remembered in later annals.
I took the suggestion, knowing that there was little alternative, and went through a series of multilingual typing and translating tests at the foreign mission.
To my amazement the Judge took me aside, and, after delivering a panegyric upon himself (but here, later, comes in the amazement), he praised my husband to the skies, and said he was the fittest man of all for a foreign mission.