Meaning of EXPEDITION
| Pronunciation: | | `ekspi'dishun
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- [n] a journey organized for a particular purpose
- [n] a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
- [n] a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- [n] the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
- [n] an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
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| | Synonyms: | | despatch, dispatch, excursion, expeditiousness, hostile expedition, jaunt, junket, military expedition, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| | See Also: | | airing, campaign, celerity, Crusade, exploration, field trip, geographic expedition, hunting expedition, journey, journeying, military campaign, quickness, rapidity, safari, scouting trip, working group, working party | |
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In the year 2358, celebrated wildlife artist Barlowe sets off on a manned space flight to a distant planet. This book is an account in pictures--and some words--of that trip. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | advance, advancement, adventure, agility, air speed, alacrity, briskness, campaign, celerity, circuit, clarification, course, crusade, decisiveness, dispatch, drive, easing, emprise, enterprise, excursion, expediting, expeditiousness, exploration, facilitation, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, forwarding, furtherance, goodwill, grand tour, ground speed, haste, hastening, helping along, holy war, hurry, hustle, immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, jaunt, jihad, journey, junket, knots, lightning speed, miles per hour, mission, nimbleness, outing, package tour, peregrination, peregrinations, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, precipitation, preferential treatment, progress, promotion, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, punctualness, quest, quickening, quickness, rapidity, readiness, round pace, round trip, rpm, rubberneck tour, run, rush, rushing, rustle, safari, sally, sharpness, shoot, simplification, simplifying, smartness, smoothing, snappiness, special treatment, speed, speediness, speeding, spryness, stalk, streamlining, summariness, swift rate, swiftness, tour, travels, trek, trip, turn, undertaking, velocity, voyage, war |
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