Definition of mission

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Mission (n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

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Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
Expiratory :: Expiratory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles..
Send :: Send (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger..
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Del Credere :: Del credere () An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due..
Bombardier :: Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Nonresistance :: Nonresistance (n.) The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition..
Nondelivery :: Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Admission :: Admission (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
Obedience :: Obedience (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
Pain :: Pain (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty..
Emission :: Emission (n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood..
Placard :: Placard (n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something..
Leave :: Leave (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact..
Omission :: Omission (n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.
Initiation :: Initiation (n.) The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order..
Jurisdiction :: "Jurisdiction (a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission..
Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like..
Phaethon :: Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po..
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