search and rescue mission
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3.4
- noun
- /sɜːrʧ ənd ˈrɛskjuː ˈmɪʃən/
:
misión de búsqueda y rescate
- The Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission to find the missing hikers after the storm.
- launched a search and rescue mission
- conducting a search and rescue mission
I thought we were going to have to send the Patriots out on a search and rescue mission for America.
- I thought we were going to have to send the Patriots out on a search and rescue mission for America.
Examples
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EVACUATIONS: Search and rescue missions were launched up and down the coast.
Blog text (28) -
We're on a search and rescue mission.
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Search and rescue missions continued up and down the coast.
Blog text (28) -
Fourteen helicopters are available for awareness, assessment, and search and rescue missions.
Blog text (13) -
The U.S. Coast Guard is performing search and rescue missions and helping reopen damaged seaports and canals so commerce can flow again.
Blog text (15) -
Furthermore, Tokyo is obliged to support search and rescue missions, refugee relief, noncombatant evacuation, and clearing of mines in areas surrounding Japan.
Academic text (2004) -
According to Sgt. Jerry Brewer, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit is responsible for marine enforcement as well as search and rescue missions.
Blog text (2) -
After the earthquake, volunteers organized a search and rescue mission to locate survivors trapped in the rubble.
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The team was deployed on a search and rescue mission to assist victims of the shipwreck off the coast.
Synonyms
37
3.0
An operation to save people from danger
20
3.1
Organized effort to save people who are trapped or in danger
2
5.8
An organized search to find and help people who are lost or in danger
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
search + and + rescue + mission
The meaning 'an operation to locate and assist people in distress' is directly compositional from 'search' (locate), 'rescue' (save), and 'mission' (organized task); a learner who knows those words can assemble the overall sense. This is a common, literal phrase in English (and mirrored in many languages), so it should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Search and rescue mission comes from putting together search (to look for someone) and rescue (to save them). Imagine teams, dogs and helicopters sweeping a mountain after an accident to find and save people, so it means 'an organized operation to find and help people in danger'.