DIPLOMATIC MISSION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mission serving diplomatic ends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("diplomatic mission" is a kind of...):

commission; delegacy; delegation; deputation; mission (a group of representatives or delegates)

Meronyms (members of "diplomatic mission"):

attache (a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diplomatic mission"):

foreign mission; legation (a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister)

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