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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation).

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Noun

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mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)

  1. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
  2. (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
  3. (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
  4. (countable, Catholicism) 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. (obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
  7. A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
    Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.
  8. (Australia, becoming obsolete) An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
  9. (slang, drugs) A drug run.

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Verb

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mission (third-person singular simple present missions, present participle missioning, simple past and past participle missioned)

  1. (transitive) To send on a mission.
  2. (intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.

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Finnish

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Noun

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mission

  1. genitive singular of missio

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiōnem.

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mission f (plural missions)

  1. mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)
  2. mission (religious evangelism)

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: misiune
  • Turkish: misyon

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

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mission f (plural missions)

  1. (Jersey) mission

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin missiō, missiōnem.

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mission oblique singularf (oblique plural missions, nominative singular mission, nominative plural missions)

  1. expense; cost; outlay

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mission c

  1. (countable) a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
  2. (uncountable) mission; religious evangelism
    inre missiondomestic mission (evangelizing within the home country)

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