Word Finder - mission

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A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.

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Religious evangelism.

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(in the plural, "the missions") third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.

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(Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.

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A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

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Dismissal; discharge from service

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A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.

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Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.

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To send on a mission.

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Do missionary work, proselytize

I have a special mission for you.

I can't have you distract me from my mission right now.

He failed in his mission, for which she was grateful.

Its mission statement is to demand transparency after a crime is committed and to assure all efforts to nail the guilty party are being pursued.

I have a real mission to execute hunting down insurgents.

You're fine now, and it's time for me to move onto the next mission, she insisted.

Suppose Alfred Nota and his pal Homer's break-in at Collingswood Avenue was just a cover-up and their true mission was to plant a listening device.

In September 1791, Roland's mission being executed, they returned to Lyons.

It never sat well with him that those charged with enforcing Death's mission served not out of choice but obligation to the deity that stole their souls.

For now, our mission is to protect the lost souls from the demons.

The radio channel played nonsensical songs from the 60's in a barely successful mission to lift her spirits.

I'm going on a mission.

You and I have a different mission.

To an outsider, he appeared as confident and fresh as a man just starting a mission after a good night's sleep.

This started out as a mission about us but has turned into a mission about you.

Descartes accepted the philosophic mission, and in the spring of 1629 he settled in Holland.

I was sent to train him, and I will complete my mission.

It's an important mission.

On his visit to Toulouse in 1665, with a mission from the Cartesian chiefs, his lectures excited boundless interest; ladies threw themselves with zeal and ability into the study of philosophy; and Regis himself .was made the guest of the civic corporation.

Kaisarieh is the headquarters of the American mission in Cappadocia, which has several churches and schools for boys and girls and does splendid medical work.

It consists of delegates elected by each province, certain ex officio members, and representatives from the mission field.

Jellia at once departed on the errand, and she was gone so long that they had almost forgotten her mission when the green robed maiden returned with a troubled face.

She really had personalized the mission.

We both know this is a suicide mission.

It has several ginning factories and a cotton-mill; two high schools, one maintained by the Government and the other by the Basel German Mission.

The head of the mission is chief of staff.

Three years later this mission had to be abandoned; but in 1881 work was again resumed.

Promise you'll barter my freedom if Qatwali imprisons me on this peace mission.

Brady forced his thoughts to his mission.

I can't let my emotions interfere with a mission.

She'd never let fear stand between her and a mission.

I want you to get your things and meet me at the mission.

What she didn't understand was why a vamp would consider it his job to remind her of her mission.

Wondering how much he should say, A'Ran's gaze went to another screen first, the one listing the details of their unsuccessful peace mission.

Brady's focus returned to his mission.

Your team is being dispatched on a new mission.

Are you really going to let your jackass brother send you on a suicide mission?

This one had taken over Gabriel's mission.

She couldn't let it stop her now, though this kind of fear was far different than that of losing her life or failure on a mission.

About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.

In 1837 the membership in Great Britain and Ireland was 318,716; in foreign mission stations, 66,007; in Upper Canada, 14,000; while the American Conferences had charge of 650,678 members.

The delegates found the king at Jedburgh, and the mission, which was a dangerous one, was successfully accomplished.

He was appointed secretary to Cabarrus on a special mission to France in 1787.

During Somerset's protectorate he entered public life and was made a secretary of state, being sent on an important diplomatic mission to Brussels.

In 1856 John Coleridge Patteson, afterwards bishop of Melanesia, had paid his first visit to the islands, and native teachers trained at the Melanesian mission college subsequently 'established themselves there.

On a mission to ensure there was a clean slate between his mate and Darkyn, Gabriel waited in the middle of Deidre's old apartment for the Dark One to arrive.

Just the lone Guardian whose mission there was as hidden to the boy-god as the Original Being's.

Alex urged Ed into a walk and they continued their mission.

How many times had she been told this was a fool's mission?

The infallibility of the Church, thus limited, is a necessary outcome of the fundamental conception of the Catholic Church and its mission.