as in job
a specific task with which a person or group is charged
your mission is to clean up the house before company arrives
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Recent Examples of mission
Content creators flock to the festival with the sole mission of generating engagement.
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Tiana Denicola, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
The Apollo mission’s rover was an incredible feat at the time.
—James Morris, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Finally, a Nigerian woman who was attempting to break the world record for the fastest time to visit every continent was thwarted in her mission by flight delays and visa issues.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
Watch On The 31st overall mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle (known as NS-31) will launch a six women — the first all-female space crew since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space during a solo mission to orbit in 1963.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Tiana Denicola, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
The Apollo mission’s rover was an incredible feat at the time.
—James Morris, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Finally, a Nigerian woman who was attempting to break the world record for the fastest time to visit every continent was thwarted in her mission by flight delays and visa issues.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
Watch On The 31st overall mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle (known as NS-31) will launch a six women — the first all-female space crew since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space during a solo mission to orbit in 1963.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mission
Noun
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Sure enough, in early 2024, PJ took a job as an avionics technician at Tinker.—
Jenni Carlson,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The premise alone is perfectly thrilling: Four men take a job driving explosive nitroglycerin over a mountain pass.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Lillie Davidson is a general assignment reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a TCU student studying journalism (Go Frogs!).—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Apr. 2025
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Among the ruins, the most important school assignment left is to live despite it all.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Homebuilders warn that tariffs and other charges (including the potential doubling of existing duties on Canadian lumber) on softwood lumber and other materials could further exacerbate the housing affordability crisis.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Reports ahead of Trump’s country-specific tariff declaration indicated that the retail giant was pushing its Chinese suppliers to cut prices to offset the impact of the looming duties.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Apr. 2025
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Tan began his career in 1999 at Louis Vuitton in retail and merchandising, later joining Burberry, holding various regional roles in retail operations and merchandising.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
11 Apr. 2025
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These advances will shift operations, teams, responsibility and strategic focus.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Apr. 2025
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The strategy is straightforward: invest at least $2,000 in a company's stock to gain shareholder rights, then submit resolutions pushing for corporate responsibility.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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That allowed companies to get out of the pension business, but gave employees more responsibility over their retirement funds.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Mission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mission. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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