About The Word Expedition
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Expedition
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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.
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