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mission impossible

mission impossible noun: an extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.

Noun

mission impossible (plural missions impossible or mission impossibles)

  1. An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
    • Mission impossibles occur continuously.1995, Jack W. Hunger, Engineering the system solution: a practical guide to developing systems, page xvi
    • Go out and educate and sell in the course of negotiating basic trade issues the mission impossibles.2001, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Globalization and American trade policy: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 107th Congress, first session, February 27...

Forms of mission impossible

pluralmissions impossible
pluralmission impossibles

Origin of mission impossible

From the television series Mission: Impossible, first broadcast in the 1960s.

Questions about mission impossible

What does mission impossible mean?
Mission impossible means an extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
What part of speech is mission impossible?
Mission impossible is a noun.
What is the plural of mission impossible?
The plural of mission impossible is missions impossible.

Words near mission impossible in the dictionary

  1. Mission grapes
  2. Mission Hill
  3. Mission Hills
  4. mission home
  5. mission homes
  6. mission impossible
  7. mission impossibles
  8. Mission Indian
  9. Mission Indians
  10. mission kill
  11. mission kills

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