Expedition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Expedition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expedition n a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country Synonym(s): expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" a journey organized for a particular purpose a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" Synonym(s): excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" Synonym(s): dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expedition \Ex`pedi"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. exp[82]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.