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EXPEDITION
expedition
(noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
(noun) a journey taken for pleasure; “many summer excursions to the shore”; “it was merely a pleasure trip”; “after cautious sashays into the field”
expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
(noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient; “it was done with dispatch”
expedition
(noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; “an expedition was sent to explore Mars”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)
(obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
(now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
(military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
The group of people making such excursion.
Verb
expedition (third-person singular simple present expeditions, present participle expeditioning, simple past and past participle expeditioned)
(intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`pe*di"tion, n. Etym: [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
16 November 2024
LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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