The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. George Washington
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. Dave Barry
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. Anatoli Boukreev
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition. Peter O'Toole
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. John Philip Sousa
expedition in Dutch is expeditie
expedition in German is Entdeckungsreise
expedition in Italian is spedizione
expedition in Latin is expeditione
expedition in Norwegian is ekspedisjon
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