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expedition
Found in thesaurus: campaign, military campaign, working group, working party, journey, journeying, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, celerity, quickness
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expedition
n.
journey embarked upon for a particular purpose; group on such a journey; haste, speed
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Expedition
Expedition may refer to:
- Adventure racing, a combination of two or more endurance disciplines, long adventure races are called expedition races
- Bicycle touring, a long-distance type of bicycling that includes expedition bicycling, which are typically long journeys over tough terrain
- Expedition (book), a science-fiction novel by Wayne Douglas Barlowe
- Expeditions (book), a collection of poetry by Margaret Atwood
- Expedition Airways, a defunct airline based in Zimbabwe
- Expedition Island a park in Green River, Wyoming that marks where Major John Wesley Powell started an expedition down the Green River
- Expedition Range, a mountain range within the Central Highlands sandstone region of Queensland, Australia
- Expedition Trophy, the world's longest winter motor rally, it runs 12,500 km from Murmansk to Vladivostok, Russia
- Expeditionary warfare, a deployment of a state's military to fight abroad, especially away from established bases
- Exploration, a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people especially for discovery and scientific research
- Ford Expedition, a full-size sport utility vehicle made by Ford Motor Company
- Pokémon Trading Card Game set, the Expedition Pokémon trading card set
- Touring bicycle, a long-distance type of bicycle that includes expedition bicycles, which are made for long journeys over rough terrain
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Expedition!
Expedition! is an American travel documentary television series that was broadcast in the United States on ABC Tuesday nights in the 1960-61 television season and Monday nights in the 1961-62 television season.
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expedition
Noun
1. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
(synonym) military expedition, hostile expedition
(hypernym) campaign, military campaign
(hyponym) Crusade
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
2. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
(hypernym) working group, working party
(hyponym) Lewis and Clark Expedition
3. a journey organized for a particular purpose
(hypernym) journey, journeying
(hyponym) scouting trip
4. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
(synonym) excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay
(hypernym) journey, journeying
(hyponym) airing
5. the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
(synonym) dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness
(hypernym) celerity, quickness, rapidity
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Expedition (die)
nf.
expedition, journey embarked upon for a particular purpose; group on such a journey
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expédition
nf.
expedition, consignment, shipment; dispatch, sending away, posting; copy
