Mission vs. Goal — What's the Difference?

A stated purpose or core value guiding an individual or organization.

A specific target or desired outcome to be achieved.

An outer space expedition undertaken by astronauts.

An endpoint in mind while working on tasks.

A specific task or duty assigned to someone.

A point scored in certain sports like soccer or hockey.

An important goal or purpose accompanied by strong conviction.

An ambition one strives for in personal or professional life.

A designated operation or campaign in military terms.

A benchmark or milestone indicating progress.

A special assignment given to a person or group

A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan and commit to achieve. People endeavour to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.

A combat operation assigned to a person or military unit.

The object toward which an endeavor is directed; an end.

An aerospace operation intended to carry out specific program objectives

A structure or area into which players endeavor to propel a ball or puck in order to score points.

An ambition or purpose that is assumed by a person or group

A play or shot that sends a ball or puck into or through the goal.

A body of persons sent to conduct negotiations or establish relations with a foreign country.

The score awarded for such an act.

The business with which such a body of persons is charged.

The finish line of a race.

A permanent diplomatic office abroad.

A noun or noun phrase referring to the place to which something moves.

A body of experts or dignitaries sent to a foreign country.

See patient.

A body of persons sent to a foreign land by a religious organization, especially a Christian organization, to spread its faith or provide educational, medical, and other assistance.

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

A mission established abroad.

(sport) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.

The district assigned to a mission worker.

(sport) The act of placing the object into the goal.

A building or compound housing a mission.

A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.

An organization for carrying on missionary work in a territory.

A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

Missions Missionary duty or work.

To score a goal.

A Christian church or congregation with no cleric of its own that depends for support on a larger religious organization.

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.

A welfare or educational organization established for the needy people of a district.

The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

To send (someone) on a mission.

A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket{7} suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass.

To organize or establish a religious mission among (a people) or in (an area).

The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{3}, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal.

Of or relating to a mission.

The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it;

Of or relating to a style of architecture or furniture used in the early Spanish missions of California.

A successful attempt at scoring;

Often Mission Of or relating to a furniture style originating during the Arts and Crafts Movement and characterized by sturdy, angular, solid wood construction.

Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

(countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.

The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey);

(uncountable) Religious evangelism.

(in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.

An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.

A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

(obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service

A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.

(transitive) To send on a mission.

(intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations.

An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.

Dismission; discharge from service.

To send on a mission.

An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work

An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters;

A special assignment that is given to a person or group;

The organized work of a religious missionary

A group of representatives or delegates