EXPEDITION
\ˌɛkspədˈɪʃən], \ˌɛkspədˈɪʃən], \ˌɛ_k_s_p_ə_d_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXPEDITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
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a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
By Princeton University
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the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
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a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
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A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
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A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Usually refers to planned scientific data-gathering excursions.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Speed: any undertaking by a number of persons: a hostile march or voyage: those who from an expedition.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A journey, as of many persons; also, the body of persons journeying.
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The quality of being expeditious; speed; dispatch.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Haste; quick despatch; the march of an army or the voyage of a fieet to a distance for hostile purposes; any undertaking by a number; the collective body on an expedition.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Speed; quickness; march of an army for a hostile purpose; voyage of a ship or ships for any particular purpose; an enterprise or undertaking by a number of persons; the persons who form the undertaking.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
