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foreign mission

  1. a religious, esp. Christian, mission sent by a church to do missionary work esp. in a non-Christian country
  2. a group sent on diplomatic or other business to a foreign nation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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