mission

An important job that someone gives you or that you choose to do.

• Your mission is to find the key.
• The soldiers completed their mission safely.
• She made it her mission to improve school meals.

How to use it: mission to do something (Our mission is to help families find homes.)

Similar words: assignment, task

Common phrases: complete a mission, secret mission, mission to help

A journey made to achieve a particular aim, often for a government or religious group.

• They left on a rescue mission.
• The minister returned from a peace mission abroad.
• She joined a religious mission to a distant village.

How to use it: on a mission to do something (The team went on a mission to rescue the climbers.)

Similar words: expedition

Common phrases: rescue mission, peace mission, mission abroad

A building or settlement where people work to spread their religion.

• The old mission has a small chapel.
• A village grew around the mission.
• We visited three historic missions during our trip.

Common phrases: Spanish mission, old mission, mission church