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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



... becomes necessary to follow Mickey O'Rooney and Sut Simpson on their hunt for a horse with which to continue their flight from the mountains and across the prairies. It cannot be said that the scout, in starting upon this expedition, had any particular plan in view. As he remarked, Indians were around them, and, wherever Indians were found, it was safe to look for the best kind of horses. Wherever the best opportunity offered, there he intended to strike. With this view, the first position of their expedition ...
— The Cave in the Mountain • Lieut. R. H. Jayne
... health-giving expedition to Lausanne. You know that I cannot possibly leave London while old Abrahams is in such mortal terror of his life. Besides, on general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, ...
— The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Spotswood (1676-1740) was governor of Virginia 1710-1723. He led an exploring expedition across the Blue Ridge and took possession of the Valley of Virginia "in the name of his Majesty King George of England." On his return to Williamsburg he presented to each of his companions a miniature golden horseshoe to be worn upon the breast. Those who took part in the expedition, which was ...
— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter
... fallen; and if that prove true, every post west of the Alleghanies is in danger. I fear that death and flame will sweep the whole frontier; and I frankly acknowledge, Wayland, my only hope in this expedition is that, by hard travel, we may be able to reach Chicagou and return again before the outbreak comes. Tom Burns, an old scout of Wayne's, and a settler in that country, was at Fort Wayne a month since with an urgent message from the commandant at Dearborn. I tell you frankly, it will ...
— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish
... the Banffshire Journal—"will recollect that when the Allies made a brief expedition to Yalto, in the south of the Crimea, they were somewhat surprised and gratified by the sight of some splendid gardens around a seat of Prince Woronzow. Little did our countrymen think that these ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson


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