expedition
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See also expédition
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin expeditio.
Noun [edit]
expedition (plural expeditions)
- (obsolete) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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...
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
- he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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.
- The body of persons making such excursion.
Translations [edit]
An important enterprise, implying a change of place
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Noun [edit]
expedition c
- an expedition, a journey, a mission
- an office
Declension [edit]
Declension of expedition
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| nominative | expedition | expeditionen | expeditioner | expeditionerna |
| genitive | expeditions | expeditionens | expeditioners | expeditionernas |
