English Dictionary

mission creep

名詞

慣用表現 不可算名詞

(politics, military, idiomatic) Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.

日本語の意味

（政治や軍事の文脈で）当初設定された任務の目的、範囲、費用などが、計画外に段階的に拡大していく現象。 / （比喩的に）プロジェクトや活動が、元々の目的から逸脱して次第に拡大・複雑化していく状況。

The general cautioned that mission creep — the gradual, unplanned expansion of objectives and scope — threatened to derail the operation.

将軍は、任務の目的や範囲が段階的かつ無計画に拡大することが作戦を脱線させるおそれがあると警告した。

意味（1）

(politics, military, idiomatic) Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.

Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the mission creep, the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight.