MILITARY MISSION Synonyms

• a race between candidates for elective office

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)

• an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)

• run, stand, or compete for an office or a position

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• go on a campaign; go off to war

• the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

• work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons

• a government tax on imports or exports

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a meeting arranged in advance

• a mutual promise to marry

• the act of giving someone a job

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

• contact by fitting together

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group

• a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

• an organization created for business ventures

• readiness to embark on bold new ventures

• a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country

• an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

• a journey organized for a particular purpose

• a journey taken for pleasure

• the property of being prompt and efficient

• a sudden short attack

• an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)

• steal goods; take as spoils

• briefly enter enemy territory

• the state of being in effect or being operative

• a business especially one run on a large scale

• a planned activity involving many people performing various actions

• (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)

• activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

• a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

• a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

• process or manner of functioning or operating

• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

• (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

• the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)

• a sudden short attack

• an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

• search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

• enter someone else's territory and take spoils

• take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

• search for something needed or desired

• a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position

• (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• assign a task to

• use to the limit

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• the trade of a funeral director

• any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

• a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

• proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work

• an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters

• a special assignment that is given to a person or group

• the organized work of a religious missionary

• a group of representatives or delegates