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MISSIONARY STATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missionary station mean? 

MISSIONARY STATION (noun)
  The noun MISSIONARY STATION has 1 sense:

1. an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious workplay

  Familiarity information: MISSIONARY STATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MISSIONARY STATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

foreign mission; mission; missionary post; missionary station

Hypernyms ("missionary station" is a kind of...):

NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)


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