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Task vs. Mission

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Tasknoun

A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

Missionnoun

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

Tasknoun

A difficult or tedious undertaking.

Missionnoun

(uncountable) Religious evangelism.

Tasknoun

An objective.

Missionnoun

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

Tasknoun

(computing) A process or execution of a program.

Missionnoun

(countable) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.

Taskverb

(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.

‘On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.’;

Missionnoun

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

Taskverb

(transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Missionnoun

(obsolete) dismissal; discharge from service

Taskverb

(transitive) To charge, as with a fault.

Missionnoun

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

‘Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.’;

Tasknoun

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

‘Ma task of servile toil.’; ‘Each morning sees some task begin,Each evening sees it close.’;

Missionverb

(transitive) To send on a mission.

Tasknoun

Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

‘His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.’;

Missionverb

do missionary work, proselytize

Taskverb

To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

‘There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.’;

Missionnoun

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

‘Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.’;

Taskverb

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Missionnoun

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

‘How to begin, how to accomplish bestHis end of being on earth, and mission high.’;

Taskverb

To charge; to tax, as with a fault.

‘Too impudent to task me with those errors.’;

Missionnoun

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

‘In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.’;

Tasknoun

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

‘he prepared for great undertakings’;

Missionnoun

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

Tasknoun

a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

‘estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars’; ‘the job of repairing the engine took several hours’; ‘the endless task of classifying the samples’; ‘the farmer's morning chores’;

Missionnoun

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

Taskverb

assign a task to;

‘I tasked him with looking after the children’;

Missionnoun

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.

Taskverb

use to the limit;

‘you are taxing my patience’;

Missionnoun

Dismission; discharge from service.

Missionverb

To send on a mission.

Missionnoun

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

Missionnoun

an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters;

‘the planes were on a bombing mission’;

Missionnoun

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

‘a confidential mission to London’; ‘his charge was deliver a message’;

Missionnoun

the organized work of a religious missionary

Missionnoun

a group of representatives or delegates

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