英语词汇“mission creep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mission creep n. originally U.S. Military slang a gradual shift in political or strategic objectives during the course of a military campaign, frequently resulting in an unresolved conflict or open-ended commitment; also in extended use.

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1993 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 12 Feb. Operation Restore Hope, the U.S.-led military mission to halt clan warfare and get aid to the needy [in Somalia], has unofficially widened its role to include such tasks as rebuilding houses, digging wells and creating police forces. Officials call it ‘mission creep’.

1994 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. 4 Oct. a8 ‘There are a lot of parallels in our intentions in Haiti and Vietnam,’ said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). ‘We're going into a conflict with an ill-defined mission, there is mission creep in a much more compressed time frame, [etc.].’

1994 Guardian 28 Oct. 23 ‘When you tell one lie, and then you have to tell another, and then another..what's that called?’ ‘Mission creep.’

1998 DM News (Nexis) 16 Nov. 30 Database projects are notorious for ‘mission creep’. What starts as a manageable, focused development effort somehow evolves into a multimillion, multiyear systems project that tries to be everything to everybody.

1999 Nation 27 Sept. 31/3 Pérez de Cuéllar had decided to shift from a peacekeeping to a peacemaking role... Even in the UN, there was opposition to this mission creep.

单词	mission creep
释义	> as lemmas mission creep mission creep n. originally U.S. Military slang a gradual shift in political or strategic objectives during the course of a military campaign, frequently resulting in an unresolved conflict or open-ended commitment; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1993 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 12 Feb. Operation Restore Hope, the U.S.-led military mission to halt clan warfare and get aid to the needy [in Somalia], has unofficially widened its role to include such tasks as rebuilding houses, digging wells and creating police forces. Officials call it ‘mission creep’. 1994 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. 4 Oct. a8 ‘There are a lot of parallels in our intentions in Haiti and Vietnam,’ said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). ‘We're going into a conflict with an ill-defined mission, there is mission creep in a much more compressed time frame, [etc.].’ 1994 Guardian 28 Oct. 23 ‘When you tell one lie, and then you have to tell another, and then another..what's that called?’ ‘Mission creep.’ 1998 DM News (Nexis) 16 Nov. 30 Database projects are notorious for ‘mission creep’. What starts as a manageable, focused development effort somehow evolves into a multimillion, multiyear systems project that tries to be everything to everybody. 1999 Nation 27 Sept. 31/3 Pérez de Cuéllar had decided to shift from a peacekeeping to a peacemaking role... Even in the UN, there was opposition to this mission creep. extracted from missionn. < as lemmas
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