ADJ
- joint
- a joint Anglo-American mission
- secret
- dangerous
- suicide
- fact-finding
- reconnaissance
- bombing, combat, military
- mercy, (search and) rescue
- peacekeeping | diplomatic
VERB + MISSION
- carry out, conduct, go on, undertake
- accomplish, complete
- Our mission accomplished, we headed for home
- dispatch sb on, give, send sb on
- sending an aid team on a mercy mission to the earthquake zone
- abandon, abort (especially of military missions)
- The captain instructed them to abort the mission
- fly (on) (used of military planes)
- He flew a total of 41 missions over Britain
MISSION + VERB
- end in failure, fail
- Their mission ended in failure
- be a success, succeed
PREP
- on a/the ~
- He was often out of the office on various missions
PHRASES
- mission impossible
- Many regard his task as mission impossible
ADJ
- diplomatic, military, trade
PREP
- ~ to
- The US is sending a trade mission to China
ADJ
- shuttle, space, spacecraft
- manned
VERB + MISSION
- go on, make
- He's been on several shuttle missions over the last decade
- abort
MISSION + NOUN
- control
- The spacecraft lost contact with mission control
PREP
- on a/the ~
- experiments conducted on a space mission
- ~ to
- a successful spacecraft mission to Venus
VERB + MISSION
- have
- He now has a mission in life: to expand the horizons of those around him
PHRASES
- a man/woman with a mission
- You can tell by the determined way he talks that he is a man with a mission
- a sense of mission
- A powerful sense of mission underpins everything he does