- a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- the business with which such a group is charged.
- any important task or duty that is assigned, allotted, or self-imposed: Our mission is to find the child a safe home.
- an important goal or purpose that is accompanied by strong conviction; a calling or vocation: She has finally found her mission in life.
- a sending or being sent for some duty or purpose.
- those sent.
- a permanent diplomatic establishment abroad; embassy; legation.
- an operational task, usually assigned by a higher headquarters: a mission to bomb the bridge.
- an operation designed to carry out the goals of a specific program: a space mission.
- a group of persons sent by a church to carry on religious work, especially evangelization in foreign lands, and often to establish schools, hospitals, etc.
- an establishment of missionaries in a foreign land; a missionary church or station.
- a similar establishment in any region.
- the district assigned to a missionary.
- missionary duty or work.
- an organization for carrying on missionary work.
- a shelter operated by a church or other organization offering food, lodging, and other assistance to needy persons.
- organized missionary work or activities in any country or region.
- a church or a region dependent on a larger church or denomination.
- a series of special religious services for increasing religious devotion and converting unbelievers: to preach a mission.
- of or relating to a mission.
- noting or pertaining to a style of American furniture of the early 20th century, created in supposed imitation of the furnishings of the Spanish missions of California and characterized by the use of dark, stained wood, by heaviness, and by extreme plainness.
- a city in S Texas.
- a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people
- a person's vocation (often in the phrase mission in life)
- a group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc, in a foreign country
- a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose
- a permanent legation
- a group of people sent by a religious body, esp a Christian church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work
- the campaign undertaken by such a group
- the work or calling of a missionary
- a building or group of buildings in which missionary work is performed
- the area assigned to a particular missionary
- the dispatch of aircraft or spacecraft to achieve a particular task
- a church or chapel that has no incumbent of its own
- a charitable centre that offers shelter, aid, or advice to the destitute or underprivileged
- of or relating to an ecclesiastical mission
- a long and difficult process
- (of furniture) in the style of the early Spanish missions of the southwestern US
- to direct a mission to or establish a mission in (a given region)
