"mission-critical" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1996, Tom Clancy, Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, page 189:",
          "text": "The LCACs role makes good communications a mission-critical feature.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, page 128:",
          "text": "Let me remind you here that a less-than-sixty-second, fun-to-use general-reference filing system within arm's reach of where you sit is a mission-critical component of full implementation of this methodology.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Benjamin Patrick Conry, 31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, page 13:",
          "text": "Cooling is an often underappreciated but a mission-critical part of the computer system.",
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        "Of a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole."
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "vital to the operations of a system as a whole",
          "word": "verksamhetskritisk"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "vital to the operations of a system as a whole",
          "word": "affärskritisk"
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  "word": "mission-critical"
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, page 128:",
          "text": "Let me remind you here that a less-than-sixty-second, fun-to-use general-reference filing system within arm's reach of where you sit is a mission-critical component of full implementation of this methodology.",
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          "ref": "2011, Benjamin Patrick Conry, 31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, page 13:",
          "text": "Cooling is an often underappreciated but a mission-critical part of the computer system.",
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        "Of a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole."
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      "sense": "vital to the operations of a system as a whole",
      "word": "verksamhetskritisk"
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      "sense": "vital to the operations of a system as a whole",
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