mission

mission, tâche

Travail important que quelqu’un te confie ou que tu choisis d’accomplir.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : mission to do something (Our mission is to help families find homes.)

Synonymes : assignment, task

Expressions courantes : complete a mission, secret mission, mission to help

mission

Voyage effectué dans un but précis, souvent pour un gouvernement ou un groupe religieux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : on a mission to do something (The team went on a mission to rescue the climbers.)

Synonymes : expedition

Expressions courantes : rescue mission, peace mission, mission abroad

mission

Bâtiment ou établissement où des personnes travaillent à faire connaître et adopter leur religion.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : Spanish mission, old mission, mission church