EXPEDITIONS
Noun
expeditions
plural of expedition
Source: Wiktionary
EXPEDITION
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