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

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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

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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

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