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Definition of Expedition
1. Noun. A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Military Campaign
Specialized synonyms: Crusade
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Derivative terms: Expeditionary
2. Noun. An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose. "An expedition was sent to explore Mars"
3. Noun. A journey organized for a particular purpose.
Specialized synonyms: Scouting Trip, Campaign, Hunting Expedition, Safari, Exploration, Geographic Expedition
4. Noun. A journey taken for pleasure. "After cautious sashays into the field"
Generic synonyms: Journey, Journeying
Specialized synonyms: Airing, Field Trip
Derivative terms: Excursionist, Jaunt, Junket
5. Noun. The property of being prompt and efficient. "It was done with dispatch"
Generic synonyms: Celerity, Quickness, Rapidity, Rapidness, Speediness
Derivative terms: Dispatch, Expeditious, Expeditious
Definition of Expedition
1. n. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
Definition of Expedition
1. Noun. (obsolete) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. ¹
2. Noun. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. ¹
3. Noun. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition. ¹
4. Noun. The body of persons making such excursion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expedition
1. [n -S]
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