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1. An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
   - missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission
    
2. An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
   "the planes were on a bombing mission"
   - military mission
    
3. A special assignment that is given to a person or group
   "a confidential mission to London"
   - charge, commission
    
4. The organized work of a religious missionary
   - missionary work
    
5. A group of representatives or delegates
   - deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy

Derived forms: missions

See also: missional, missioner

Type of: assignment, duty assignment, military operation, NGO, nongovernmental organisation [Brit], nongovernmental organization, op, operation, organisation [Brit], organization, work

Encyclopedia: Mission, Impossible Mission, Congregation of Priests of the Mission, KS Mission, Impossible II Mission, Calgary, Alberta Mission, BC Mission Mission, Calgary Mission, British Columbia Mission, Kansas Mission, South Dakota Mission, San Francisco, California Mission, Texas Mission, TX Mission, San Francisco Mission, Or Mission, OR Mission, SD Mission, Oregon