Noun: expedition ,ek-spi'di-shun
- A journey organized for a particular purpose
"The scientific expedition to Antarctica yielded valuable data on climate change"
- An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
"an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
- (military) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
"The military expedition aimed to secure the strategic port";
- military expedition, hostile expedition
- A journey taken for pleasure
"many summer expeditions to the shore";
- excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay [N. Amer]
- The property of being prompt and efficient
"it was done with expedition";
- dispatch, despatch [Brit], expeditiousness
Derived forms: expeditions
Type of: campaign, celerity [archaic], journey, journeying, military campaign, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, working group, working party [Brit]
Encyclopedia: Expedition