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An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2001, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Globalization and American trade policy: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 107th Congress, first session, February 27, 2001, Volume 4, page 23, Go out and educate and sell in the course of negotiating basic trade issues the mission impossibles.
- 2013, Marshall Fine, Stand by Me, Engage Me, Gary Cameron, Marshall Fine, Sarah Maiter, Karen Frensch, Nancy Freymond (editors, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents, page 73, The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.
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an extremely dangerous or difficult mission
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mission, charge, commission
From the television series Mission: Impossible, first broadcast in the 1960s.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
mahdoton tehtävä
— extremely difficult or impossible task
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French:
mission impossible
— extremely difficult or impossible task
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Greek:
επικίνδυνη αποστολή
(epikíndyni apostolí)
— extremely difficult or impossible task
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Portuguese:
missão impossível
— extremely difficult or impossible task
