mission

/misjɔ̃/

noun #831 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

mission, assignment

Grammar

Gender

Examples

documents minuit.

His mission is to retrieve the documents before midnight.

L'ONG lance humanitaire region sinistree.

The NGO launched a humanitarian mission in the disaster-hit region.

accomplie ! atteint tous objectifs.

Mission accomplished! We have achieved all our objectives.

Mission est un nom feminin designe une tache assignee, une expedition ou une vocation. Mission accomplie (mission accomplished) est une formule celebre de conclusion. En mission (on a mission) est courant dans les contextes militaires, diplomatiques et professionnels.

Mission impossible est une expression culturellement ancree. Donner une mission a quelqu'un (to assign a mission to someone) et confier une mission (to entrust a mission) sont des constructions formelles. Sens de la mission (sense of mission) designe une motivation profonde.

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