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  • noun Plural form of mission.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mission.

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Examples

  • Complete as practially as possible the missions is the middle east and get home.

    Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll 2010

  • The officials up there say that they're going to have 16 or 17 what they call missions involving about 130 people.

    CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007 2007

  • In their view, they have seen what they call missions creep, meaning, in their view, that states have increased the amount of income a family can have so they can apply for this SCHIP program.

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2007 2007

  • Somehow the surprise which some of them have expressed in the failures of their missions is a surprise which I think they could have saved themselves if they would have, some time earlier, devoted a little time to studying the philosophy and the thoughts and what we often forget, the convictions, of the Communists themselves.

    Between the Iron and the Ice Curtain 1949

  • Consider NASA, whose administrator, Charles Bolden, has said that "perhaps foremost" among NASA's missions is finding "a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science."

    A New Project for the Gender Police 2010

  • - Interim Regime to cooperate fully with eventual missions from the EU and EC for assessment and monitoring progress.

    Global Voices in English » Fiji: EU cancels 2009 sugar subsidy 2009

  • I would love to know the % of women involved in missions vs the % of men.

    Men and Women’s Mission Agencies 2009

  • The change is expected to dramatically refashion a multibillion-dollar contest to build a new class of shore-hugging warships that will specialize in missions like combating piracy or chasing drug smugglers.

    Navy May Split Ship Purchase Between Lockheed, Austal Nathan Hodge 2010

  • NASA's celebration of the Mars missions, is included in Episode 11 of Astrocast.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

  • The main missions involve protecting a mansion, and then picking a side between a foul-mouthed ghoul and Mother Brain.

    Fallout 3: Status Report (Level 30) pabba 2009

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