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Meaning of expedition

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  expedition
      n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific
           objective in a foreign country [syn: {expedition},
           {military expedition}, {hostile expedition}]
      2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a
         particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
      3: a journey organized for a particular purpose
      4: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the
         shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious
         sashays into the field" [syn: {excursion}, {jaunt}, {outing},
         {junket}, {pleasure trip}, {expedition}, {sashay}]
      5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with
         dispatch" [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {expedition},
         {expeditiousness}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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