| NOUN | act | expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition | a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country |
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| group | expedition | an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | |
| act | expedition | a journey organized for a particular purpose | |
| act | expedition, excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay | a journey taken for pleasure | |
| attribute | expedition, dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness | the property of being prompt and efficient |
| Sounds | eh.kspahdih'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country. | |
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| Synonyms | military expedition, hostile expedition | |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine | The military forces of a nation |
| Narrower | Crusade | Any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims |
| Broader | campaign, military campaign | Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) |
| Spanish | expedición militar, expedición | |
| Catalan | expedició militar, expedició | |
| Adjectives | expeditionary | (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad |
| Meaning | An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose. | |
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| Example | "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" | |
| Instances | Lewis and Clark Expedition | An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States |
| Broader | working group, working party | A group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved |
| Spanish | expedición | |
| Catalan | expedició | |
| Meaning | A journey organized for a particular purpose. | |
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| Narrower | campaign, hunting expedition, safari | An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) |
| exploration, geographic expedition | To travel for the purpose of discovery | |
| scouting trip | An expedition undertaken to gain information | |
| Broader | journey, journeying | The act of traveling from one place to another |
| Spanish | expedición | |
| Catalan | expedició | |
| Meaning | A journey taken for pleasure. | |
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| Synonyms | excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay | |
| Narrower | airing | A short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air |
| field trip | A group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination | |
| Broader | journey, journeying | The act of traveling from one place to another |
| Spanish | excursion, excursión, expedición, ida, incursión, paseata, salida, viaje de placer | |
| Catalan | anada, excursió, sortida | |
| Meaning | The property of being prompt and efficient. | |
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| Synonyms | dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness | |
| Broader | celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | A rate that is rapid |
| Adjectives | expeditious | marked by speed and efficiency |
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