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Definition of Expeditions
1. expedition [n] - See also: expedition
Medical Definition of Expeditions
1. Usually refers to planned scientific data-gathering excursions. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expeditions
Literary usage of Expeditions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1914)
"THE LAW OF HOSTILE MILITARY expeditions AS APPLIED BY THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER IV.
... The statutory law concerning expeditions is primarily a ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"Between them Captain Scott and Captain Colbeck had laid down the lines on which
all future Antarctic expeditions must proceed. To them geography owed the ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"expeditions.—I met with a curious remark the other day which it may be worth
while publishing, as it will show those who grumble at our failure in the ..."
4. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1895)
"It is their duty Not to permit belligerent agents or their own subjects to fit
out warlike expeditions within their dominions, or increase therein the ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"The traditions of the sagas, moreover, embrace naval expeditions to different
parts of the Baltic, from viking seats which studded the entire Scandinavian ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"expeditions AMONG THE KACHIN TRIBES, ETC. The costume too, is quaint in the
extreme, both men and women dress in while, and an assembly of Koreans looks in ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1818)
"The time was when such a title as ' The Arctic expeditions' would have appeared
equally poetical with the Newmarket and Norwich expeditions, ..."
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