Mission Definition–noun | 1. | a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like. | | 2. | the business with which such a group is charged. | | 3. | a permanent diplomatic establishment abroad; embassy; legation. | | 4. | Military. an operational task, usually assigned by a higher headquarters: a mission to bomb the bridge. | | 5. | Aerospace. an operation designed to carry out the goals of a specific program: a space mission. | | 6. | a group of persons sent by a church to carry on religious work, esp. evangelization in foreign lands, and often to establish schools, hospitals, etc. | | 7. | an establishment of missionaries in a foreign land; a missionary church or station. | | 8. | a similar establishment in any region. | | 9. | the district assigned to a missionary. | | 10. | missionary duty or work. | | 11. | an organization for carrying on missionary work. | | 12. | Also called rescue mission. a shelter operated by a church or other organization offering food, lodging, and other assistance to needy persons. | | 13. | missions, organized missionary work or activities in any country or region. | | 14. | a church or a region dependent on a larger church or denomination. | | 15. | a series of special religious services for increasing religious devotion and converting unbelievers: to preach a mission. | | 16. | an assigned or self-imposed duty or task; calling; vocation. | | 17. | a sending or being sent for some duty or purpose. | –adjective | 19. | of or pertaining to a mission. | | 20. | (usually initial capital letter ) noting or pertaining to a style of American furniture of the early 20th century, created in supposed imitation of the furnishings of the Spanish missions of California and characterized by the use of dark, stained wood, by heaviness, and by extreme plainness. | |
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Skate Definition–noun | 3. | the blade of an ice skate. | | 4. | a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship. | –verb (used without object) | 5. | to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates. | | 6. | to glide or slide smoothly along. | | 7. | Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf. | | 8. | (of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage. | —Idioms | 10. | get or put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste. | | 11. | skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice. | |
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Toronto Star Online - Found Sep. 25, 2008
Mission-Itech was formed from the merger in 2004 of Mission Hockey, a California-based roller blade and ice skate maker, and Itech Products...
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Interest!ALERT - Found Sep. 29, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
KLFY - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
Columbus Business First - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
The Business Journal Phoenix - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
Calibre Macro World - Found Sep. 24, 2008
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
CNW Telbec - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /CNW/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a leader in ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a
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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH
PR Newswire via Yahoo! - Found Sep. 24, 2008
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a ... in 1927, Bauer developed the first skate with a blade
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Toronto's 'war room' has its hands full Saturday
Hockey Refs - Found Oct. 24, 2008
... to as 'The Video Room,' 'Mission Control' or ... Colin Campbell (Director of Hockey Operations ... coming off a high stick or a skate, would ...
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