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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expedition \Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. exp['e]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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expedition n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: {military expedition}, {hostile expedition}] 2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" 3: a journey organized for a particular purpose 4: a journey taken for pleasure; "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}] 5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: {dispatch}, {expeditiousness}]
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