'Expedition' definitions:

Definition of 'expedition'

From: WordNet
noun
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition]
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An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
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A journey organized for a particular purpose
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A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
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The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]

Definition of 'Expedition'

From: GCIDE
  • Expedition \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. [1913 Webster]
  • With winged expedition [1913 Webster]
  • Swift as the lightning glance. ? [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. [1913 Webster]
  • Putting it straight in expedition. ? [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The expedition miserably failed. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. --J. C. Fremont. [1913 Webster]