mission statement

noun

: something that states the purpose or goal of a business or organization

The company's mission statement emphasizes its ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of the community.

Examples of mission statement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Take your mission statement off the website, take it down from the office wall and look at the company. — Brian Duggan, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

This is a mission statement that has been internalized by several awards shows over the past couple decades, as viewership for ceremonies like the Oscars, Golden Globes, and Grammys has fallen. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2026

Brunicki also noted that professional investors will likely treat Anthropic’s TAM less as a literal forecast and more as a kind of mission statement. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

And across the conversation, that refusal to be boxed in becomes the closest thing Vietnam‘s newest idol group has to a mission statement. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for mission statement

• abatement
• affreightment
• misstatement
• restatement
• overstatement
• reinstatement
• understatement