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Definition of expedition

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Expedition (n.) 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; also, the body of persons making such excursion..

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Head :: Head (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot..

Reyse :: Reyse (v. i.) To go on a military 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..

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..

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

Range :: Range (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

Expeditionary :: Expeditionary (a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force..

Posthaste :: Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste..

Military :: Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition..

Equipment :: Equipment (n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition..

Excursion :: Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

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..

Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..

Chivachie :: Chivachie (n.) A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition..

Expeditious :: Expeditious (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger..

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..

Photosculpture :: Photosculpture (n.) A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition..

Warpath :: Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

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..

Botanical :: Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition..