Expedition
WordNet
noun
(1) A journey organized for a particular purpose
(2) A journey taken for pleasure
"Many summer excursions to the shore"
"It was merely a pleasure trip"
"After cautious sashays into the field"
(3) A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
(4) The property of being prompt and efficient
"It was done with dispatch"
(5) An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
"An expedition was sent to explore Mars"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition...
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
- he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
- 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.
- The body of persons making such excursion.