expedition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.
Inflected forms:
form: expeditions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expeditions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expeditioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expeditioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expeditioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a naval expedition
a scientific expedition
an expedition across the Alps
gloss: The group of people making such excursion.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
gloss: The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […].
he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting irregular, as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
gloss: The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […]
Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […]
And for the expedition of this war,
If he thinke good, can from his garriſons,
UUithdraw as many more to follow him.
gloss: To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.
I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.
Related words: excursion
exploration
field trip
Derived words: DX-pedition
DXpedition
expeditionary
expeditionist
fishing expedition
sexpedition
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: retkikunta
lang: Ancient Greek
word: στόλος
roman: stólos
lang: Hungarian
word: felfedezőcsapat
lang: Māori
word: pahī
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: oppdagelsesreise
lang: Swedish
word: expedition
lang: Zazaki
word: geyrık