A mission is an important task or goal that a person or group is sent or chooses to do. It can be military, religious, scientific, or personal, like a space mission or a life mission.
From Latin “missio,” meaning “a sending,” from “mittere,” “to send.” It first referred to being sent out by a church or government and later broadened to any purposeful assignment.
Mission literally begins as the idea of being “sent out” on a purpose. When you say you’re ‘on a mission,’ you’re echoing centuries of people dispatched into the world with orders or a calling.
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