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What (who) is expedition - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Expeditioning; Expedition (disambiguation); Expeditions (disambiguation)
expedition
n.
1.
Haste, speed, despatch, celerity, quickness, promptness, alacrity, alertness.
2.
Enterprise, undertaking.
3.
March or voyage, hostile undertaking.
expedition
¦ noun
1. a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose.
2. formal promptness or speed in doing something.
Derivatives
expeditionary adjective
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. expeditio(n-), from expedire (see expedite).
expedition
(expeditions)
1.
An expedition is an organized journey that is made for a particular purpose such as exploration.
...Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica.
N-COUNT: oft N to n
2.
You can refer to a group of people who are going on an expedition as an expedition.
Forty-three members of the expedition were killed.
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3.
An expedition is a short journey or trip that you make for pleasure.
...a fishing expedition.
= trip
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Wikipedia
Expedition
Expedition may refer to:
- An exploration, journey, or voyage undertaken by a group of people especially for discovery and scientific research
Examples of use of expedition
1. The prohibition might have been stated first during the Khaybar expedition and repeated again on the later expedition.
2. It‘s like Sennacherib‘s expedition – destroying and pillaging.
3. "I grant that expedition mean expedition in this case – otherwise the effect of any appeal would be neutral," the judge said.
4. After returning to Earth in July, Expedition 14 and Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams will hold the NASA astronaut record for longest time in space.
5. Shackleton made his drawing after returning from the Nimrod expedition in 1'0'. Scott and four companions died in an Antarctic expedition in 1'12.