MILITARY MISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military mission mean? 

• MILITARY MISSION (noun)
  The noun MILITARY MISSION has 1 sense:

1. an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters

  Familiarity information: MILITARY MISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY MISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

military mission; mission

Context example:

the planes were on a bombing mission

Hypernyms ("military mission" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military mission"):

combat mission (a mission to capture or defend something)

search mission (a mission to discover something)

search and destroy mission (an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them)

direct support (a mission requiring one force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly the supported force's request for assistance)