"side mission" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "side missions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
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            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
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          "ref": "2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "When one of the daily robberies ends with him accidentally merking the robber (a real player, which the NPCs aren’t supposed to be able to attack), Guy gets his hands on the victim’s sunglasses—a pair of eyewear that allows him to see, like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in They Live, the secret messages (and, in this case, powerups and side missions and stats) scattered across his world.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of sidequest"
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        [
          "sidequest",
          "sidequest#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "(video games) Synonym of sidequest"
      ],
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          "word": "sidequest"
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      "topics": [
        "video-games"
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  "word": "side mission"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "When one of the daily robberies ends with him accidentally merking the robber (a real player, which the NPCs aren’t supposed to be able to attack), Guy gets his hands on the victim’s sunglasses—a pair of eyewear that allows him to see, like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in They Live, the secret messages (and, in this case, powerups and side missions and stats) scattered across his world.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of sidequest"
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "sidequest",
          "sidequest#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "(video games) Synonym of sidequest"
      ],
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  "word": "side mission"
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