Meaning & use
Missions
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Important assignments or tasks that a person or group is sent to carry out, often involving a specific goal.
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The astronauts trained for years before their missions to the space station.
The charity runs medical missions in remote villages each year.
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Plural of "mission," from Latin "missio" (a sending), originally used for religious missionary work before broadening to military and organizational use.
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