expdn.

Noun

expedition (countable and uncountable, plural expeditions)

1. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
   • Once established in their capital at Nanking, occupied March, 1853, and renamed “Heavenly Capital” (T’ien-ching), the Taipings sent out an expedition to take Peking which again made striking gains initially, but was eventually slowed, isolated, and defeated.1960, “The Heavenly Kingdom of the Taipings”, in Wm. Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, Chester Tan, compilers, Sources of Chinese Tradition, volume II, New York; London: Columbia University Press...
2. An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
3. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
   • a naval expedition
4. (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
5. The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
6. (archaic) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
   • one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

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