Definition of expedition

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Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

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Posthaste :: Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste..
Spurgall :: Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit..
Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.
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..
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.
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
Expedition :: Expedition (n.) 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..
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..
Excursion :: Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Botanical :: Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition..
Forcing :: Forcing (n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition..
Military :: Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition..
Expedition :: Expedition (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
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..
Expedition :: Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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..
Warpath :: Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
Haste :: Haste (n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals..
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