Synonyms of the word mission


MISSIONASSIGNMENT - CHARGE - COMMISSION - DELEGACY - DELEGATION - DEPUTATION - OPERATION - ORGANISATION - ORGANIZATION - WORK

mission

  • n. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer.
  • n. (uncountable) Religious evangelism.
  • n. (in the plural, "the missions") third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide…
  • n. (countable) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part…
  • n. A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
  • n. (obsolete) dismissal; discharge from service.
  • n. A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
  • v. (transitive) To send to a mission.

assignment

  • n. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  • n. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
  • n. An assigned task.
  • n. A position to which someone is assigned.
  • n. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
  • n. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
  • n. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
  • n. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

charge

  • n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
  • n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
  • n. A load or burden; cargo.
  • n. The amount of money levied for a service.
  • n. An instruction.
  • n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  • n. An accusation.
  • n. An electric charge.
  • n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  • n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  • n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  • n. A forceful forward movement.
  • n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  • n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  • n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  • n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
  • n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
  • v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
  • v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
  • v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
  • v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
  • v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
  • v. To impute or ascribe.
  • v. To call to account; to challenge.
  • v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
  • v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
  • v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
  • v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

commission

  • n. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
  • n. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
  • n. The thing to be done as agent for another.
  • n. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
  • n. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
  • n. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
  • v. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art).
  • v. (transitive) To put into active service.

delegacy

  • n. The position or state of being a delegate.
  • n. A collection of delegates.

delegation

  • n. An act of delegating.
  • n. A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
  • n. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential…
  • n. (law) A contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead, with the creditor’s…

deputation

  • n. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy…
  • n. The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or…
  • n. Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation…

operation

  • n. The method by which a device performs its function.
  • n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
  • n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • n. A planned undertaking.
  • n. A business or organization.
  • n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
  • n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the…
  • n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
  • n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

organisation

  • n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organization

  • n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
  • n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
  • n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
  • n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
  • n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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