NOUN | act | hostile expedition, expedition, military expedition | a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country |
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Meaning | A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country. | |
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Synonyms | expedition, military 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 |
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