missions

NOUN

person's task, responsibility

Synonyms

STRONG

aim assignment business calling charge commission duty end errand goal job lifework object objective office operation profession purpose pursuit quest sortie trade trust undertaking vocation work

Antonyms

STRONG

avocation entertainment fun hobby pastime recreation retreat unemployment

Example Sentences

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History doesn’t recognize inevitability or deviations: There is no true path to return to, only a course charted by helmsmen who err, commit misprisions and occasionally even display flashes of genius.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

Capital cases not being mentioned here, accessaries to them will of course be triable for misprisions, if the offender flies.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson