foreign mission

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmissionmissionary postmissionary station

   Broadernongovernmental organization
2. 2.

   a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister

   Synonymslegation

   Broaderdiplomatic mission

Questions about foreign mission

What does foreign mission mean?

foreign mission means "an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for foreign mission?

Close synonyms include mission, missionary post, missionary station, legation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foreign mission a common word?

foreign mission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.