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MISSIONARY WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missionary work mean? 

MISSIONARY WORK (noun)
  The noun MISSIONARY WORK has 1 sense:

1. the organized work of a religious missionaryplay

  Familiarity information: MISSIONARY WORK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MISSIONARY WORK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The organized work of a religious missionary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mission; missionary work

Hypernyms ("missionary work" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "missionary work"):

da'wah; dawah (missionary work for Islam)


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