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MISSIONARY POST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does missionary post mean?
• MISSIONARY POST (noun)
The noun MISSIONARY POST has 1 sense:
1. an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
Familiarity information: MISSIONARY POST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
foreign mission; mission; missionary post; missionary station
Hypernyms ("missionary post" is a kind of...):
NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)
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