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expedition



noun
1. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country (Freq. 4)
Syn:
military expedition, hostile expedition
Derivationally related forms:
expeditionary
Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
Hypernyms:
campaign, military campaign
Hyponyms:
Crusade
2. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose (Freq. 3)
- an expedition was sent to explore Mars
Hypernyms:
working group, working party
Instance Hyponyms:
Lewis and Clark Expedition
3. a journey organized for a particular purpose (Freq. 3)
Hypernyms:
journey, journeying
Hyponyms:
scouting trip, campaign, hunting expedition, safari, exploration, geographic expedition
4. a journey taken for pleasure (Freq. 1)
- many summer excursions to the shore
- it was merely a pleasure trip
- after cautious sashays into the field
Syn:
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay
Derivationally related forms:
junket (for: junket), jaunt (for: jaunt), excursionist (for: excursion)
Hypernyms:
journey, journeying
Hyponyms:
airing, field trip
5. the property of being prompt and efficient
- it was done with dispatch
Syn:
dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness
Derivationally related forms:
expeditious (for: expeditiousness), expeditious, dispatch (for: dispatch)
Hypernyms:
celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness

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