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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
expedition
    n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific
         objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition,
         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, expedition, sashay]
    5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with
       dispatch" [syn: dispatch, despatch, expedition,
       expeditiousness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            With winged expedition
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            Swift as the lightning glance. ?
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   2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some
      object of consequence; progress.
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            Putting it straight in expedition. ?
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   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.
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            The expedition miserably failed.      --Prescott.
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            Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky
            Mountains. --J. C. Fremont.
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Thesaurus Results for expedition:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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