military mission

1. 1.

   an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters

   “the planes were on a bombing mission”

   Synonymsmission

   Broaderoperation

   Narrowercombat missionsearch missionsearch and destroy missiondirect support

   military

Questions about military mission

What does military mission mean?

military mission means "an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters".

What is another word for military mission?

Close synonyms include mission. 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 military mission a common word?

military 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.