Definition of expedition

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Expedition (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Photosculpture :: Photosculpture (n.) A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition..
Furnish :: Furnish (v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house..
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
Nocturnal :: Nocturnal (a.) Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to diurnal..
Reyse :: Reyse (v. i.) To go on a military expedition.
Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition..
Expeditionary :: Expeditionary (a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force..
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Crusade :: Crusade (n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans..
Equipment :: Equipment (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments..
Warpath :: Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
Chivachie :: Chivachie (n.) A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition..
Excursion :: Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Arctic :: Arctic (a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature..
Expedition :: Expedition (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
Expeditionist :: Expeditionist (n.) One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
Posthaste :: Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste..
Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called The Anabasis..
Head :: Head (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot..
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