What does mission-critical mean?

mission-critical

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.55 in modern English

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"The LCACs role makes good communications a mission-critical feature."
"Let me remind you here that a less-than-sixty-second, fun-to-use general-reference filing system within arm's reach of where you sit is a mission-critical component of full implementation of this methodology."
"Cooling is an often underappreciated but a mission-critical part of the computer system."

more mission-critical (comparative) most mission-critical (superlative)

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