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  • verb Present participle of mission.

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Examples

  • "missioning" him to his new post, saying "I entrust to him the task of maintaining the university's Jesuit Catholic mission."

    Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed 2009

  • But there's plenty of wiggle room left to allow U.S. troops to remain far longer than that, maybe following the Iraq model of what the Pentagon calls "re-missioning" -- giving combat troops a new name, like "trainers" or "advisers," and leaving them in place.

    Phyllis Bennis: A Really Big Show: Bigwigs Gather in Kabul...for What, Exactly? 2010

  • But there's plenty of wiggle room left to allow U.S. troops to remain far longer than that, maybe following the Iraq model of what the Pentagon calls "re-missioning" -- giving combat troops a new name, like "trainers" or "advisers," and leaving them in place.

    Phyllis Bennis: A Really Big Show: Bigwigs Gather in Kabul...for What, Exactly? 2010

  • Among its ideas are re-missioning the Cooperative Extension Service, rural electrification programs and other applicable federal farm programs to retool rural communities and farms.

    William S. Becker: Road to Copenhagen - Part 5: Big Hairy Audacious Leadership vs. Nattering Nabobs of Negativism* 2009

  • MARCIANO: In the frigid north Georgia mountains, a potentially sinister turn, the story of this missioning hiker.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008 2008

  • So all Americans and especially true friends of Israel better step up and vocally and officially support the measures listed above and require Congress to refuse further war funding unless the President makes the redeployment and re-missioning of our troops described here the “way forward.”

    Avoiding Endless Occupation 2007

  • Likely would scare off a lot of the industrial/trader/miner/missioning sorts likely the majority of players.

    The 800 lb gorilla in Eve-Online 2007

  • We are, in fact, supporting our Particle Therapy from an installation, missioning, field service and training perspective as well.

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  • Whether Obama plans to use the inevitable election instability as an excuse to postpone those troop withdrawals -- either by re-missioning combat troops by re-naming them

    Mikey Likes It! Mikey Likes It! 2010

  • Whether Obama plans to use the inevitable election instability as an excuse to postpone those troop withdrawals -- either by re-missioning combat troops by re-naming them

    The Common Ills Common Ills 2010

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