Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expedition"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Expedition \Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F.
exp['e]dition.]
1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness;
haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail
with expedition.
With winged expedition
Swift as the lightning glance. ?
2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some
object of consequence; progress.
Putting it straight in expedition. ?
3. 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.
The expedition miserably failed. --Prescott.
Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky
Mountains. --J. C. Fremont.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
expedition
n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective
in a foreign country [syn: {military expedition}, {hostile
expedition}]
2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a
particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore
Mars"
3: a journey organized for a particular purpose
4: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the
shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious
sashays into the field" [syn: {excursion}, {jaunt}, {outing},
{junket}, {pleasure trip}, {sashay}]
5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done
with dispatch" [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {expeditiousness}]
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