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Expedition

Expedition Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Expedition? [n] a journey organized for a particular purpose [n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [n] a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [n] the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [n] an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Expedition: despatch \| dispatch \| excursion \| expeditiousness \| hostile expedition \| jaunt \| junket \| military expedition \| outing \| pleasure trip \| sashay Related Terms \| Find terms related to Expedition: advance \| advancement \| adventure \| agility \| air speed \| alacrity \| briskness \| campaign \| celerity \| circuit \| clarification \| course \| crusade \| decisiveness \| dispatch \| drive \| easing \| emprise \| enterprise \| excursion \| expediting \| expeditiousness \| exploration \| facilitation \| fastness \| flight \| flit \| flurry \| forwarding \| furtherance \| goodwill \| grand tour \| ground speed \| haste \| hastening \| helping along \| holy war \| hurry \| hustle \| immediacy \| immediateness \| instantaneousness \| jaunt \| jihad \| journey \| junket \| knots \| lightning speed \| miles per hour \| mission \| nimbleness \| outing \| package tour \| peregrination \| peregrinations \| pilgrimage \| pleasure trip \| precipitation \| preferential treatment \| progress \| promotion \| promptitude \| promptness \| punctuality \| punctualness \| quest \| quickening \| quickness \| rapidity \| readiness \| round pace \| round trip \| rpm \| rubberneck tour \| run \| rush \| rushing \| rustle \| safari \| sally \| sharpness \| shoot \| simplification \| simplifying \| smartness \| smoothing \| snappiness \| special treatment \| speed \| speediness \| speeding \| spryness \| stalk \| streamlining \| summariness \| swift rate \| swiftness \| tour \| travels \| trek \| trip \| turn \| undertaking \| velocity \| voyage \| war See Also \| airing \| campaign \| celerity \| Crusade \| exploration \| field trip \| geographic expedition \| hunting expedition \| journey \| journeying \| military campaign \| quickness \| rapidity \| safari \| scouting trip \| working group \| working party Expedition In Webster's Dictionary \Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. exp['e]dition.] 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance. ? 2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition. ? 3. 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; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. --Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. --J. C. Fremont.

Expedition Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Expedition?

[n] a journey organized for a particular purpose
[n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
[n] a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
[n] the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
[n] an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"

Expedition In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F.
exp['e]dition.]
1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness;
   haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail
   with expedition.

         With winged expedition

         Swift as the lightning glance. ?

2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some
   object of consequence; progress.

         Putting it straight in expedition. ?

3. 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; also, the body of persons making
   such excursion.

         The expedition miserably failed.      --Prescott.

         Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky
         Mountains. --J. C. Fremont.

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