meaning of expeditions
1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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.
4. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
Related Words
expedition | expeditionary | expeditionist | expeditious | expeditiously | expeditiousness |
