missions

noun

plural of mission
as in assignments
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 missions This can include missions like delivering combat divers into contested regions. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026 Flight operations are managed by Lockheed Martin’s MATRIX autonomy system, allowing operators to command missions from a tablet without continuous continuous control or monitoring. — New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026 The terminology shift arrives as NASA continues expanding its use of AI across missions and research programs, from autonomous Mars rover navigation to models capable of analyzing enormous amounts of scientific data. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Military drones are on kamikaze missions; they’re supposed to kill. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 Notably, in the new documents, NASA assigns an explicit price to crew and cargo missions. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for missions
  1. assignments
  2. jobs
  3. duties
  4. operations
  5. responsibilities
  6. requirements
Noun
  • The White House has continued to restrict CNN from certain assignments, including flying on Air Force One on presidential trip.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Those assignments do not necessarily represent lawsuits filed in court.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of assignments
Noun
  • The protection of American jobs justified the chains of bondage, or so the argument went.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Engagement is often seen as a metric about sentiment that can be measured and tracked, but is treated as something employees bring—or fail to bring—to their jobs.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of jobs
Noun
  • The service previously operated the EC-130Q for TACAMO duties from 1963 through 1993, according to Lockheed Martin.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Rome — Pope Leo XIV left hospital Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery in a swift return to his duties following the first health scare of his papacy.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of duties
Noun
  • Marshall has consistently voted against Senate War Powers Resolutions aimed at halting or restricting military operations in Iran.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Russia's Ryazan oil refinery has suspended operations at a primary crude distillation unit after a drone attack in the region on Thursday, two industry sources told Reuters.
    — Arathy Somasekhar Reuters, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of operations
Noun
  • At Moontrail, creative direction, storytelling, emotional decisions and artistic judgment remain purely human responsibilities.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Technical capabilities are evolving quickly, but so are the human skills needed to work effectively alongside AI, adapt to changing workflows and take on new responsibilities.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of responsibilities
Noun
  • Advertisement In Europe, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, and England implemented school CPR education through national requirements or curriculum standards.
    — Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Avoiding it in the first place makes far more sense, even if the K3's additional hardware and energy requirements complicate the question of its overall environmental footprint.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of requirements

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“Missions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missions. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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