military mission
9
4.0
- noun
- /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈmɪʃən/
:
misión militar
- To meet that goal, the Pentagon is already suggesting that military missions and troop levels be reduced.
- U.S. military mission
- new military mission
- military mission as the defense
Examples
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Support for traditional military missions is consistent across service branches.
Academic text (2000) -
Like other Western nations, the United States was faced with the task of redefining its military mission in light of the redefined threat.
Academic text (2000) -
What a convenient way to send a military mission with full authority to dig, dig, dig.
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During war, there is a natural tension between legal safeguards and the military mission.
Academic text (2007) -
The military mission, as originally defined by President Obama, was achieved in Afghanistan but not in Pakistan.
Academic text (2011) -
The House and the Senate have appropriated hundreds of billions of dollars for the military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Academic text (2010) -
As the military takes on an ever-increasing number of these kinds of politico-military missions, one can see a changing role for the junior-level soldier.
Academic text (1994) -
In fact, the American people are rightly suspicious of military missions that are ill-defined, open-ended, and unimportant to the national interest.
Academic text (1996) -
There are several reasons for this, among them a lack of clear national interest, an extremely low tolerance for casualties in military missions that are essentially humanitarian, and an aversion to long-term policing.
Academic text (2014) -
The soldiers were prepared to carry out their military mission to secure the region.
Synonyms
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2.8
An important task or a group sent by an organization to do it
811
3.2
A planned action by a group to achieve a goal
56
3.7
A planned action by armed forces to achieve a goal
3
3.5
A specific job or task officially given to someone, often in the military
How Dangerous
12
5.3
9
4.0
54
4.4
16
3.4
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an operation assigned to a military unit' is directly and compositionally derived from 'military' (relating to soldiers/war) + 'mission' (a formal assigned task). This ADJ+NOUN combination follows standard and cross-linguistically common composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the expression.
Etymology
The noun military mission comes from the old idea of a mission as someone being 'sent' out to do a special job. So a military mission is literally soldiers 'sent' to carry out a planned 'task', which is why today it means a military task with a clear goal.