expedition

Noun
  1. A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country (synset 100970583)
    referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
    is a type of: campaign, military campaign - several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
    subtypes: crusade - any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
    same as: hostile expedition, military expedition
  2. An organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose (synset 108426087)
    "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
    is a type of: working group, working party - a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved
    specific instances: lewis and clark expedition - an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806
  3. A journey organized for a particular purpose (synset 100310473)
    is a type of: journey, journeying - the act of traveling from one place to another
    subtypes:
  4. A journey taken for pleasure (synset 100312635)
    "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
    is a type of: journey, journeying - the act of traveling from one place to another
    subtypes:
    • airing - a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air
    • field trip - a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination
    same as: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay
  5. The property of being prompt and efficient (synset 105066981)
    "it was done with dispatch"
    is a type of: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness - a rate that is rapid
    same as: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness

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