Noun
(literally) A mission, operation to reach and rescue people in urgent need, as after a disaster
A religious mission set up (usually in poor city quarters) to rescue human 'derelicts' from a wasted life of sin, the final aim being conversion
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAfter players rescue Marcella and Tyrone, the next objective will send players on a search and rescue mission for the remaining members of echo five. Source: Internet
After 61 days of harsh imprisonment, during which Prince Robert I of Capua 's Norman army was repulsed on its rescue mission, Paschal II yielded and guaranteed investiture to the Emperor. Source: Internet
A Good Day to Die Hardsaw John and Jack McClane teaming up after a botched rescue mission in Moscow and taking down Russian foes in Chernobyl. Source: Internet
After communist Simba rebels took white residents of the city of Stanleyville hostage, the U.S. and Belgium developed a joint rescue mission that used the C-130s to airlift and then drop and air-land a force of Belgian paratroopers to rescue the hostages. Source: Internet
By 549 AD paper kites were certainly being flown, as it was recorded that in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. Source: Internet
Charlton, strapped into his seat, had fallen out of the cabin and when United goalkeeper Harry Gregg (who had somehow got through a hole in the plane unscathed and begun a one-man rescue mission) found him, he thought he was dead. Source: Internet