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Missionary Work

Definition: Missionary Work

Missionary Work

Noun

1. The organized work of a religious missionary.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Missionary Work

Synonym: mission (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Missionary Work

English words defined with "missionary work": mission. (references)

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Modern Usage: Missionary Work

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it'll be missionary work rather than sex. (Reds; writing credit: Warren Beatty; Trevor Griffiths)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Missionary Work

DomainTitle

Books

  • God's invasion : the story of fifty years of Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary work in Irian Jaya (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Missionary Work

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Belgium

In April 2000, authorities began refusing to issue visas to missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) to enter the country for missionary work. (references)

Economic History

Namibia

Missionary work during the 1800s drew many Namibians to Christianity. (references)

Hong Kong

There are approximately 586 Americans residing in Macau, engaged in business, academic and missionary work. (references)

Travel

Trinidad

Work permits are required for certain types of compensated and non-compensated employment, including missionary work. (references)

Taiwan

Resident Visas are issued to foreign nationals who intend to stay in Taiwan for more than six months for study or research, employment, investment, missionary work, joining family members, or other legitimate reasons. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Missionary Work

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

missionary work

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Missionary Work

Language Translations for "missionary work"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

lähetystyö. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

伝" (evangelism, proselytizing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

で"どう (conduction, drive, electric, evangelism, gearing, palace, palatial building, proselytizing, transmission). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

issionarymay orkway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Missionary Work

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-k-m-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-w-y"

-4 letters: missionary.

-5 letters: ironworks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Missionary Work


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 73 73 69 6F 6E 61 72 79      57 6F 72 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#114 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 0072 0079      0057 006F 0072 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47758585758180678491257818477

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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