expedition

[Ex`pe*di·tion]

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.

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The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

Noun
a journey organized for a particular purpose

Noun
a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

Noun
a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country

Noun
the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

Noun
an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"

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n.
The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

n.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

n.
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.


Expedition

Ex`pe*di"tion , n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. exp'82dition.] 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.
Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Usage Examples

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

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Other Usage Examples

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.

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