"on a mission" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From on + a + mission (“set of tasks that fulfils a duty or purpose; deeply felt ambition in life”).",
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    "mis‧sion"
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          "ref": "2014 March 5, Keira Donegan, “We’re Not Alone”, in The Truth and Other Lies, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "So she walked and as the night begun^([sic]) to engulf the countryside Emily still did not tire, she was on a mission; a mission to save her friend, her sister.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “European Championship – Semi-final: England 2 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-04-12:",
          "text": "Gareth Southgate's side were on a mission to travel one step further than any England side has done since the 1966 World Cup final win against West Germany and they finally achieved the long-cherished goal as they came from behind to beat Denmark after extra time.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Actively and determinedly engaged on a task."
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          "determinedly",
          "determinedly"
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          "engage",
          "engage"
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          "task",
          "task#Noun"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "actively and determinedly engaged on a task",
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            "with-adessive"
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          "word": "olla päämäärä"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "actively and determinedly engaged on a task",
          "word": "en mission"
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        {
          "ref": "1993 November 23, Calvin Broadus Jr., Andre Young, Delmar Arnaud (lyrics and music), “Gz Up, Hoes Down” (track 18), in Doggystyle, performed by Snoop Doggy Dogg, Los Angeles, Calif.: Death Row Records, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I'm slipping on my khaki suit (Which one?) / The blue one, gun by my side as I mob to the beach / On a mission and I'm fishing for my DJ Warren G",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Tracey Helton Mitchell, “Let’s Get This Out of the Way”, in The Big Fix: Hope after Heroin, Berkeley, Calif.: Seal Press, Perseus Books Group, →ISBN, pages 42–43:",
          "text": "Unfortunately for that relationship, I was a train wreck from day one. All I could think was, Where can I get some drugs? I was on a mission, as I called it. I knew that if I could find Jeremy, I would be able to get high. I had heard he had advanced to harder drugs. Plus, I trusted him. Either way, I had to find something.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Susan C. Ball, “1999: Coping with a Different Paradigm”, in Suzanne Gordon, Siobhan Nelson, editors, Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work), Ithaca, N.Y.; London: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 225–226:",
          "text": "I was with a patient, Loretta. “That guy is on a mission,” she told me. ¶ “What does that mean?” I asked. ¶ “A mission. You know, a mission. He needs some crack. He’s on a mission.” […] “I know. That guy is on a mission. I recognize it. Any crackhead would. I seen it many times.” Loretta had been there. She’d first come to me after spending a year in a halfway house getting off drugs.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Looking for drugs; on a drug run."
      ],
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          "look#Verb"
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        [
          "drugs",
          "drug#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "drug run",
          "drug run"
        ]
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        "(slang) Looking for drugs; on a drug run."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "9 91",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "looking for drugs",
          "word": "kamaa hakemassa"
        }
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɪʃən"
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  "word": "on a mission"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From on + a + mission (“set of tasks that fulfils a duty or purpose; deeply felt ambition in life”).",
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          "ref": "2014 March 5, Keira Donegan, “We’re Not Alone”, in The Truth and Other Lies, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "So she walked and as the night begun^([sic]) to engulf the countryside Emily still did not tire, she was on a mission; a mission to save her friend, her sister.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "Gareth Southgate's side were on a mission to travel one step further than any England side has done since the 1966 World Cup final win against West Germany and they finally achieved the long-cherished goal as they came from behind to beat Denmark after extra time.",
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          "task#Noun"
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          "text": "I'm slipping on my khaki suit (Which one?) / The blue one, gun by my side as I mob to the beach / On a mission and I'm fishing for my DJ Warren G",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Tracey Helton Mitchell, “Let’s Get This Out of the Way”, in The Big Fix: Hope after Heroin, Berkeley, Calif.: Seal Press, Perseus Books Group, →ISBN, pages 42–43:",
          "text": "Unfortunately for that relationship, I was a train wreck from day one. All I could think was, Where can I get some drugs? I was on a mission, as I called it. I knew that if I could find Jeremy, I would be able to get high. I had heard he had advanced to harder drugs. Plus, I trusted him. Either way, I had to find something.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Susan C. Ball, “1999: Coping with a Different Paradigm”, in Suzanne Gordon, Siobhan Nelson, editors, Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work), Ithaca, N.Y.; London: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 225–226:",
          "text": "I was with a patient, Loretta. “That guy is on a mission,” she told me. ¶ “What does that mean?” I asked. ¶ “A mission. You know, a mission. He needs some crack. He’s on a mission.” […] “I know. That guy is on a mission. I recognize it. Any crackhead would. I seen it many times.” Loretta had been there. She’d first come to me after spending a year in a halfway house getting off drugs.",
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          "drugs",
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          "drug run"
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        "(slang) Looking for drugs; on a drug run."
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      "sense": "actively and determinedly engaged on a task",
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      "word": "olla päämäärä"
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      "sense": "actively and determinedly engaged on a task",
      "word": "en mission"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "looking for drugs",
      "word": "kamaa hakemassa"
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  "word": "on a mission"
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