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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 missionary
Familiarity information: MISSIONARY WORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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"):
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