"mission station" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mission stations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mission station (plural mission stations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Electa Fidelia Jones, Stockbridge, Past and Present, Or, Records of an Old Mission Station",
          "text": "Stockbridge lay in the direct route, and it was constantly feared that the French and Indians would be down from the north, and sweep the little mission station before them; but the tide divided, and passed to the east and west of us, the hostile not daring to encounter the friendly Indians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Anna Morgan, “Under the Black Flag”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 29",
          "text": "We wanted to remain on the land and make our living however we could. But, no; the Board would not have that; we must live on the mission station.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people."
      ],
      "id": "en-mission_station-en-noun-8loWDUq~",
      "links": [
        [
          "reserve",
          "reserve"
        ],
        [
          "missionaries",
          "missionary"
        ],
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "base for propagating Christian faith",
          "word": "lähetysasema"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mission station"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mission stations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mission station (plural mission stations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Electa Fidelia Jones, Stockbridge, Past and Present, Or, Records of an Old Mission Station",
          "text": "Stockbridge lay in the direct route, and it was constantly feared that the French and Indians would be down from the north, and sweep the little mission station before them; but the tide divided, and passed to the east and west of us, the hostile not daring to encounter the friendly Indians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Anna Morgan, “Under the Black Flag”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 29",
          "text": "We wanted to remain on the land and make our living however we could. But, no; the Board would not have that; we must live on the mission station.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reserve",
          "reserve"
        ],
        [
          "missionaries",
          "missionary"
        ],
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "base for propagating Christian faith",
      "word": "lähetysasema"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mission station"
}