Mission
A mission literally means something that is sent, from the Latin word missum, "sent".- Thus we may refer to space exploration expeditions as "space missions",
- or to a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory as a "diplomatic mission".
- Mission, British Columbia city in Canada.
- Christian missionss are movements or outposts of Christian proselytism.
- Mission is often used to refer to the outposts established by Spanish friars in what are now the south-western states of the USA, and to the buildings that remain from those outposts; see California missions. The Mission District of San Francisco derives its name from such a Mission, the Mission San Francisco de Asis
- The 1986 film The Mission has a Christian mission as its setting.
- Analogously to the religious use, some businesses see and label their marketing practices as "missions". Other businesses may simply subscribe to mission statementss as credos.
- In military parlance, "operationss" are sometimes termed "missions".
- Mission is also the name of an ethnic group.
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