Definition of expedition

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Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

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Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
Range :: Range (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Equipment :: Equipment (n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition..
Crusade :: Crusade (n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans..
Military :: Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition..
Forcing :: Forcing (n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition..
Nocturnal :: Nocturnal (a.) Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to diurnal..
Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition..
Equipment :: Equipment (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments..
Expeditionist :: Expeditionist (n.) One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called The Anabasis..
Haste :: Haste (n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals..
Swapped :: Swan-upping (n.) A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping..
Expedition :: Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
Posthaste :: Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste..
Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.
Arctic :: Arctic (a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature..
Expeditionary :: Expeditionary (a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force..
Outfit :: Outfit (n.) A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad..
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
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