单词 | foreign mission |
释义 | foreign missionnoun 1A permanent office established by a nation to represent its interests in a foreign country.Tu made the appeal when he met with more than a score of representatives from foreign missions at a seminar on the establishment of a pluralistic culture society....
2A group sent by a church to live in a foreign country for a period of time, especially to seek converts.As a young, southern Presbyterian minister, Sheppard longed for a missionary post in Africa, but the church's white-led foreign mission would send him only if he were accompanied by a white missionary, and that was hard to come by....
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