Expedition

Quick meaning: Expedition is a noun meaning A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

Meaning

A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
2. (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
3. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
4. (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
5. The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
6. (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
7. (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.

Example Sentences

a naval expedition

a scientific expedition

he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.

He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.

Word Forms

• expeditions
• expeditioning
• expeditioned

Synonyms for expedition

Depending on context, synonyms include excursion, jaunt, dispatch, junket, outing, expeditiousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expeditiousness, dispatch, jaunt, outing, excursion, junket.

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