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Expedition   /ˌɛkspədˈɪʃən/   Listen
Expedition

noun
1.
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.  Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition.
2.
An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose.
3.
A journey organized for a particular purpose.
4.
A journey taken for pleasure.  Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay.  "It was merely a pleasure trip" , "After cautious sashays into the field"
5.
The property of being prompt and efficient.  Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness.



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"Expedition" Quotes from Famous Books



... raid upon England took place on January 19, 1915. The Zeppelins passed over the cities of Yarmouth, Cromer, Sherringham and King's Lynn. On this expedition there were two Zeppelins. They reached the coast of Norfolk about 8.30 in the evening and then steered northwest across the country toward King's Lynn, dropping bombs as they went. In these towns there were no military stations ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... officers and crew, had for consort the Discoverer, of twenty-six tons and thirteen men. After following the windings of "the brave river" for twelve miles or more, the two vessels turned back and put to sea again, having failed in the chief object of the expedition, which was to obtain a cargo of the medicinal sassafras-tree, from the bark of which, as well known to our ancestors, could be distilled ...
— An Old Town By The Sea • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... vegetable garden ran, perhaps seventy-five or one hundred feet; but to my childish fancy it was an endless territory. I can still recall the thrill of joy, excitement, and wonder it gave me to go on an exploring expedition through it, to find the blackberries, both ripe and green, that grew along ...
— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson
... MARGUERITE:—I am of return only yesterday from an expedition to the hills, and I find your precious letter waiting for me. No need to tell you that I pressed it to my heart, covered it with kisses. Jack says your letters are the sole thing of which he is jealous. I grieve to hear that you must lose those little ones whom you ...
— Fernley House • Laura E. Richards
... thanks to excavations of the German expeditions of Gruenwedel and von Lecoq, the two English expeditions of Sir Aurel Stein and the French expedition of M. Pelliot, that in that long chain of oases filled with busy cities, Buddhist art was gradually formed into the likeness under which it was to appear as a finished product in the Far East. Here it developed magnificently. ...
— Chinese Painters - A Critical Study • Raphael Petrucci


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