Expedition

Word EXPEDITION
Character 10
Hyphenation ex pe di tion
Pronunciations /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Expedition"

What do we mean by expedition?

A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite objective. noun

The group undertaking such a journey. noun

Speed or promptness in performance. synonym: haste. noun

The state of being freed from impediments; hence, expeditiousness; promptness; haste; speed; quickness; despatch. noun

The state of being expedited or put in motion; progress; march. noun

An excursion, journey, or voyage made by a company or body of persons for a specific purpose; also, such a body and its whole outfit: as, the expedition of Xerxes into Greece; Wilkes's exploring expedition; a trading expedition to the African coast. noun

Synonyms Celerity, nimbleness, alertness. noun

Trip, raid. noun

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

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

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. noun

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

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

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. noun

The body of persons making such excursion. noun

An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose noun

A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country noun

The property of being prompt and efficient noun

A journey taken for pleasure noun

The act of expediting something; prompt execution.

A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage

A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose

The group of people making such excursion.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Expedition

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The word "expedition" in example sentences

Lewis by Michael Pritchett: Like Lewis and Clark's epic trek more than 200 years ago, Michael Pritchett's novel about their expedition is an arduous journey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From their names the expedition is usually known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

The fact that the expedition is to be a joint one causes some regrets of another kind at home. ❋ Unknown (1861)

“You are familiar, I trust, with the disappearance of the Sir John Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Penelope is using you to find her husband, why are you dreaming of the Franklin expedition? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I reveal the expedition is not alone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a lack of detail in many areas, such as, if the expedition is well into Amazonia, and are totally spent and half-dead from starvation and disease, how did they get out in order that they undertake the next expedition? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cheryl, try an urchin expedition during next year's lent - it's a lot of fun. ❋ Laurie Constantino (2008)

The purpose of the current expedition is to reconstruct the world of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) before Western man set foot on the island of Mauritius and wiped out the species. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But it was primarily a Magellan-meets-Darwin expedition in which Venter and his crew sifted the sea for enough biological material to map the genome of, well, the entire planet Earth, collecting millions of microbes on filter paper and shipping them back to Rockville, Maryland, for analysis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And so, led by Jungle Brad -- twin brother of the late Ranger Brad -- the expedition is soon underway, encountering characters old and new as they seek to obtain the powerful rock in the only place it can be found ... the dreaded Valley of the Monsters. ❋ Edgreen86 (2007)

This fabulously fun nighttime expedition is essential bedtime reading for the toddler and preschool crowd. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When they write the environmental history of early 21st-century China, the freshwater dolphin expedition now plying the Yangtze river may be seen as man's farewell to an animal it once worshipped. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When an expedition from the "Pan-American Federation" arrive in Great Britain in the year 2137 they find only a hand ful of survivors, living in nearly stone age conditions, just as a few tribes in continental Europe are living. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He had also formed a plan for sending a person, properly qualified, on an expedition from the French settlement of St. Joseph on the river Senegal, to Tombuctoo; but owing to some circumstance which he does not explain, the scheme did not take effect. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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