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Meaning of 'expedition' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Expedition [ n.]
- The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
- A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
- 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.

Meaning of 'expedition' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . expedition [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a journey taken for pleasure
Example in sentence:
  • after cautious sashays into the field;
  • it was merely a pleasure trip;
  • many summer excursions to the shore
Meaning (2):
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
Example in sentence:
  • an expedition was sent to explore Mars
Meaning (3):
- the property of being prompt and efficient
Example in sentence:
  • it was done with dispatch

Nearby Words:

expand expanded expander expanding expanse expansibility expansible expansile expansion expansive

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