expedition   (Sound)

The noun expedition has 5 senses

• expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition -- (a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country)


• expedition -- (an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars")


• expedition -- (a journey organized for a particular purpose)


• excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay -- (a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field")


• dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness -- (the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch")