| NOUN | act | military expedition, expedition, hostile 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, 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 | |
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