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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mission
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a combat mission/operation
▪ He flew 280 combat missions in two wars.
a diplomatic mission
▪ He was sent to France three times on diplomatic missions.
a mission statement (=one in which an organization states its aims)
▪ The role of a mission statement is to focus on the purpose of the organization.
a peace mission (=officials who are sent by their government to another country to discuss peace)
▪ India’s prime minister sent a peace mission to the Gulf.
a rescue operation/mission
▪ A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing.
Mission accomplished (=we have done what we intended to do)
▪ Mission accomplished .
mission control
mission creep
mission statement
▪ Use a personal mission statement to chart your career course.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
diplomatic
▪ Only VIPs and foreign diplomatic missions are given permission to utilise such dishes.
▪ Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
▪ They are considered attaches to the diplomatic mission there and are not armed.
▪ The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information.
▪ A token number of official diplomatic missions is desirable but not essential.
▪ Crucial to the success of diplomatic missions were first the quality of the ambassadors and secondly the political intelligence.
▪ It has nine permanent diplomatic missions abroad.
military
▪ Between 1945-46, he served on a military mission to Washington.
▪ Harman said that while the military mission has gone well, she doubts that the country can be united.
personal
▪ His personal and professional mission could be said to be to build a successful business in running shoes.
▪ This was, indeed, the-real-ization of his personal and professional mission.
▪ In fact, he and his wife made that their personal and professional mission.
secret
▪ Dole was described by aides as furious that word had leaked of what was supposed to be a secret mission.
▪ There were secret caches, secret trails, secret codes, secret missions, secret terrors and appetites and longings and regrets.
■ NOUN
combat
▪ His very first authentic combat mission as commander.
▪ He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
control
▪ The geologists in mission control were not best pleased as they had planned some serious scientific work at the landing site.
▪ It will post the material, via mission control in San Francisco, on the Internet.
▪ It reminded the sergeant of mission control for some dark and mysterious space flight.
▪ It also functions as the mission control centre for the city's street people.
▪ One lot is assigned to mission control and the other to the space station.
▪ Armstrong, meanwhile, was still searching for a safe landing spot and the tension at mission control was climbing.
mercy
▪ Soldiers now face the harsh reality of their mercy mission in the barren country.
▪ The authorities also believe if these mercy missions continue it could present long term problems.
▪ It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions.
▪ With United Nations help, it's hoped this mercy mission will be the first of many.
▪ Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages.
▪ I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler's private planes.
▪ They already have a Hercules plane running mercy missions to Sarajevo.
▪ It's undertaken a number of mercy missions such as to the Kurds.
rescue
▪ They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship.
▪ No staggering lines formed at rescue missions.
▪ A desperate rescue mission was launched.
▪ He hit upon a rescue mission for himself: freedom bonds.
▪ But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems.
▪ Intermittent radio failure on board the boat also hampered the rescue mission.
▪ He believes rescue missions should be carefully planned but do serve a purpose.
shuttle
▪ Challenger Learning Centres aim to give children something of the excitement and adventure of a shuttle mission.
▪ It will be the first shuttle mission for Horowitz, who began flying with his father at age 7.
▪ It also provides a docking facility for later shuttle missions.
statement
▪ The mission statement of a health authority may be to promote the health and hygiene of the people in its catchment area.
▪ Can you create a mission statement that is a reflection of your personal and business goals in two sentences or less?
▪ This would be a good time to try to do a mission statement of your own.
▪ This becomes part of your mission statement and will help you focus as your business grows.
▪ And entrepreneurs have also found it useful to discuss any possible mission statement with their spouses or partners.
▪ Such a mission statement would combine his love for running with making money.
▪ Can you write down your mission statement in one or two sentences?
suicide
▪ His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.
▪ As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions, which was just the kind of action he wanted.
▪ The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nice peeps, aren't they?
trade
▪ Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London.
▪ Ron Brown was on a trade mission to the Balkans when he died in the line of duty.
▪ Botha also announced the opening of a trade mission in St Petersburg.
▪ Also, the programme of trade missions undertaken in 1990/91 decreased in comparison to the previous year.
■ VERB
accomplish
▪ In essence, he had accomplished his original mission.
▪ They are authorized to use any conceivable means to accomplish the mission.
▪ Leonie had exactly one hour to accomplish her mission.
▪ Such abuse of power is not just a problem for women, it is potentially an obstacle to accomplishing the mission.
▪ Both systems were created during the 1930s to accomplish specific missions.
▪ By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished.
▪ As he was zealous to accomplish his mission, SlideIl fumed and protested the delay.
▪ The Sun Devils accomplished half their mission.
carry
▪ They had some Lewes bombs, but no detonators, and thus could not carry out their mission.
▪ Ahab is seen as the Pope and the three primitive harpooners are his cardinals who will help him carry out his mission.
▪ That evening Valeria and I discussed the problem of whether to carry on with our mission or not.
▪ Both have optical equipment that allows pilots to carry out nighttime bombing missions.
▪ Like Noah in his ark, they had traveled across the vast oceanic flood to carry out their holy mission.
▪ Before carrying his mission on to Corinth, Paul gave private instructions to Dionysius and Damaris.
▪ In which free-lance warriors are selected one at a time to carry out a dangerous mission.
complete
▪ He must complete his mission and leave as fast as possible.
▪ A second biological weapons inspection team, which arrived on Sept. 20, was expected to complete its mission in early October.
▪ A Jaguar pilot, he completed 31 missions.
▪ Your objective is to complete your mission and return to base in one piece.
▪ Ramlal longed to complete his mission and get back to the peace of the village.
establish
▪ A more formally established lunar mission steering group was convened at Langley during 1960.
▪ Eventually pentecostals-some of them-did organize denominations, establish mission boards, found colleges, and administer vast, sprawling missionary enterprises.
fly
▪ Our helicopter gunships flew 118 missions and returned safely to base.
▪ A lot of commanders flying these missions liked to get real close to get a good look.
▪ In October 1964 the Soviets flew the first three-man mission.
▪ All were tied to their product and its relation to the wing flying mission.
▪ The helicopter, which covers six counties, has flown four hundred missions and saved at least twenty lives in the last year.
▪ I'd flown too many missions, seen too many of my friends blown to pieces.
▪ He and I had flown the last mission together, my first hot mission.
lead
▪ First, however, he was chosen to lead another mission to London.
▪ Now the man who led the mission has told their story.
man
▪ The Nova will have unmanned launches next year followed by a manned mission, which Bennett himself wants to pilot.
▪ For manned lunar-landing missions, an even larger booster was required.
▪ In all there were eleven manned Apollo missions, of which nine flew to the Moon.
▪ Further, no nation on Earth presently has the ability to launch manned lunar missions.
▪ At that stage the engines were being developed with a manned Mrs mission in mind.
▪ By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished.
▪ It is now far more acceptable to start talking about a manned mission to Mars.
▪ Manned visits to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos often figure as parts of manned missions to the surface of Mars.
peacekeeping
▪ The United Nations peacekeeping mission was a disaster waiting to happen.
▪ Wars begin and end quickly; peacekeeping missions go on for ever.
send
▪ In 1847 the ambassador in Vienna was sent on a special mission to the papacy.
▪ The poverty in Cocorote convinced her of the need to send a mission.
▪ They are only useful to the people who sent Elmariel on this mission.
▪ I offered to send a technical mission to Moscow to assess the immediate needs at first hand.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ The four men who were killed were sent on a murder mission.
▪ Zhang Qian was sent with a mission and suitable gifts.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
▪ At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
▪ My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
▪ Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
▪ This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
▪ When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
mercy flight/mission etc
▪ A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed last night that Stansted would be used for all future mercy flights.
▪ I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler's private planes.
▪ It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions.
▪ Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages.
▪ Soldiers now face the harsh reality of their mercy mission in the barren country.
▪ The authorities also believe if these mercy missions continue it could present long term problems.
▪ They already have a Hercules plane running mercy missions to Sarajevo.
▪ With United Nations help, it's hoped this mercy mission will be the first of many.
mission/cost/grade etc creep
▪ It is a case of mission creep gone wildly over the top.
personal mission statement
suicide attack/mission/bombing etc
▪ As Delbert saw it, they went on suicide missions, which was just the kind of action he wanted.
▪ His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.
▪ The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission - nice peeps, aren't they?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A British trade mission has arrived in Moscow.
▪ a rescue mission to salvage a satellite
▪ Bush flew bomber missions for the Navy in World War II.
▪ He volunteered to embark on a dangerous secret mission into occupied France.
▪ He was immediately sent to Paris. His mission was to negotiate a ceasefire.
▪ I flew on over 280 combat missions in two wars, so I'm used to danger.
▪ Longobardi headed up the Jesuit mission to China.
▪ The food missions in Pittsburgh usually serve 750 people per day.
▪ The French President has sent a mission to the region to try to find a peace formula.
▪ the Galileo mission to Mars
▪ The Prime Minister of Canada will be leading a trade mission to India and Pakistan.
▪ Their mission is to go to the rainforest to study possible medicinal uses of the plants there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he knew very well that it was a dangerous mission.
▪ Equally, each organization will have developed its own sense of its tasks mission and role in relation to others.
▪ Future missions would collect those rocks and return them to Earth for analyses.
▪ He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.
▪ In that office he translated the old church language about a sense of mission, redirecting it to the nation.
▪ In this mission, Momich continues to make every effort to be responsive to and sensitive of his neighbors.
▪ On early missions the insulating foam was painted white so that it matched the rest of the shuttle.
▪ This is a mission, carried out by people with fire in their eyes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mission

Mission \Mis"sion\, n. [L. missio, fr. mittere, missum, to send: cf. F. mission. See Missile.]

  1. The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

    Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.
    --Shak.

  2. That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

    How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high.
    --Milton.

  3. Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations.

    In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.
    --Bacon.

  4. An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

  5. An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

  6. A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
    --Addis & Arnold.

  7. Dismission; discharge from service. [Obs.] Mission school.

    1. A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries.

    2. A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.

      Syn: Message; errand; commission; deputation.

Mission

Mission \Mis"sion\, v. t. To send on a mission. [Mostly used in the form of the past participle.]
--Keats.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mission

1590s, "a sending abroad," originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a despatching; a release, a setting at liberty; discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past participle stem of mittere "to send," oldest form probably *smittere, of unknown origin.\n

\nDiplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s. In American English, sometimes "an embassy" (1805). Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (1929, American English) later extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control (1964). As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to North America, it is attested from 1900.

Wiktionary
mission

n. 1 (context countable English) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer. 2 (context uncountable English) Religious evangelism. 3 (context uncountable English) (the missions) collective term for third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid. 4 (context countable English) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme. 5 A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy. 6 (context obsolete English) dismissal; discharge from service 7 A (l en settlement) or (l en building) serving as a base for (l en missionary) work. vb. (context transitive English) To send to a mission.

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WordNet
mission

  1. n. an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission]

  2. an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: military mission]

  3. a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: charge, commission]

  4. the organized work of a religious missionary [syn: missionary work]

  5. a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy]

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Gazetteer
Mission, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000): 1019
Housing Units (2000): 336
Land area (2000): 7.644868 sq. miles (19.800116 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.644868 sq. miles (19.800116 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49000
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.666940 N, 118.672899 W
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Mission
Mission, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 904
Housing Units (2000): 339
Land area (2000): 0.593427 sq. miles (1.536968 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.593427 sq. miles (1.536968 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42940
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.306758 N, 100.656481 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57555
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Mission
Mission, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 9727
Housing Units (2000): 5329
Land area (2000): 2.529158 sq. miles (6.550488 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.529158 sq. miles (6.550488 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47225
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.025572 N, 94.656056 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66205
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Mission, KS
Mission
Mission, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 45408
Housing Units (2000): 17723
Land area (2000): 24.128675 sq. miles (62.492979 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007331 sq. miles (0.018988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 24.136006 sq. miles (62.511967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48768
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.211402 N, 98.321277 W
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Wikipedia
Mission

'''Mission ''' may refer to:

Mission (station)

A religious mission or mission station is a location for missionary work.

Mission (grape)

Mission grapes are a variety of Vitis vinifera introduced from Spain to the western coasts of North and South America by Catholic New World missionaries for use in making sacramental, table, and fortified wines.

Mission (LDS Church)

A mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative area to which church missionaries are assigned. Almost all areas of the world are within the boundaries of an LDS Church mission, whether or not Mormon missionaries live or proselytize in the area. As of July 2015, there are 418 missions of the LDS Church.

Mission (song)

Mission is a song by the progressive rock band Rush from the 1987 album Hold Your Fire.

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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.