Thesaurus results for MISSION

mission

noun

ˈmi-shən

Definition of mission

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 Glass is no stranger to such responsibilities after serving as the top cop at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for the past four and half years while leading the agency’s directives and missions. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026 Maybe Noah is continuing his grandmother’s mission and Hal, once again, got in the way? — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026 Now, Aaliyah and Ehsan are connected to the effort to take Joe, turning the consequences of that mission into a threat that has followed her years later. — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026 The modular design means that payloads can be easily swapped out to meet mission requirements. — New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mission

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mission

Noun

If your job or business uses a bill counter continuously and all day, triple-check that it’s rated for continuous and constant use.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Hiring remains well below the 166,000 monthly jobs created, on average, in 2023 and 2024, and the 491,000 a month recorded during the 2021-2022 hiring boom that followed COVID-19 lockdowns.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of job

Noun

Roberts saluted Díaz for working hard to get back to an uncertain assignment.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
But Brian Stelter, the network’s media analyst, posted on X Friday that CNN had a pool assignment at the National Archives event and that the White House had approved the network’s credentials.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of assignment

Noun

Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
Pembroke Pines officers asked the sheriff’s office to handle the homicide investigation — John retired from the Pembroke Pines Police Department following nearly 28 years of service and his on-duty motorcycle crash.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of duty

Noun

First cell lines enter trial operations Trial production will allow CATL to set up, optimize, and validate the equipment and manufacturing processes before series production begins.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
The couple brought Apex home and were billed $5,198 for the operation, Shin said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of operation

Noun

Their characters contended with sexism, inflexible schedules, unequal pay and the near impossibility of balancing work with responsibilities at home.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Lewis was never charged in the poisonings, but he was convicted of extortion for sending a letter to Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson taking responsibility for the deaths and demanding $1 million to stop them.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026