Task vs. Mission — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Task and Mission
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Definitions
Task
A piece of work assigned or done as part of one's duties.
Mission
A special assignment given to a person or group
An agent on a secret mission.
Task
A difficult or tedious undertaking
Finding qualified people to fill these specialized roles was a real task.
Mission
A combat operation assigned to a person or military unit.
Task
A function to be performed; an objective
It is our task to renew consumer confidence.
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Mission
An aerospace operation intended to carry out specific program objectives
A mission to Mars.
Task
To assign a task to or impose a task on
The agency was tasked with creating an advertising campaign.
Mission
An ambition or purpose that is assumed by a person or group
Felt it was his mission in life to help the poor.
Task
(Archaic) To subject to strain or hardship
"The Professor's household was a modest one, and yet it tasked his ideas to keep it up to his wife's standard" (Edith Wharton).
Mission
A body of persons sent to conduct negotiations or establish relations with a foreign country.
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Task
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.
Mission
The business with which such a body of persons is charged.
Task
Any piece of work done.
Mission
A permanent diplomatic office abroad.
Task
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
Mission
A body of experts or dignitaries sent to a foreign country.
Task
An objective.
Mission
A body of persons sent to a foreign land by a religious organization, especially a Christian organization, to spread its faith or provide educational, medical, and other assistance.
Task
(computing) A process or execution of a program.
The user killed the frozen task.
Mission
A mission established abroad.
Task
(obsolete) A tax or charge.
Mission
The district assigned to a mission worker.
Task
(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
Mission
A building or compound housing a mission.
Task
(transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
Mission
An organization for carrying on missionary work in a territory.
Task
(transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
Mission
Missions Missionary duty or work.
Task
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Ma task of servile toil.
Each morning sees some task begin,Each evening sees it close.
Mission
A Christian church or congregation with no cleric of its own that depends for support on a larger religious organization.
Task
Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
Mission
A welfare or educational organization established for the needy people of a district.
Task
To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
Mission
To send (someone) on a mission.
Task
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
Mission
To organize or establish a religious mission among (a people) or in (an area).
Task
To charge; to tax, as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
Mission
Of or relating to a mission.
Task
Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;
He prepared for great undertakings
Mission
Of or relating to a style of architecture or furniture used in the early Spanish missions of California.
Task
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
The job of repairing the engine took several hours
The endless task of classifying the samples
The farmer's morning chores
Mission
Often Mission Of or relating to a furniture style originating during the Arts and Crafts Movement and characterized by sturdy, angular, solid wood construction.
Task
Assign a task to;
I tasked him with looking after the children
Mission
(countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
Task
Use to the limit;
You are taxing my patience
Mission
(uncountable) Religious evangelism.
Mission
(in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
Mission
An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
Mission
A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
Mission
(obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
Mission
A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.
Mission
(transitive) To send on a mission.
Mission
(intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.
Mission
The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.
Mission
That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
How to begin, how to accomplish bestHis end of being on earth, and mission high.
Mission
Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations.
In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.
Mission
An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
Mission
An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
Mission
A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
Mission
Dismission; discharge from service.
Mission
To send on a mission.
Mission
An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
Mission
An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters;
The planes were on a bombing mission
Mission
A special assignment that is given to a person or group;
A confidential mission to London
His charge was deliver a message
Mission
The organized work of a religious missionary
Mission
A group of representatives or delegates
