expedition Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
military expedition; hostile expedition.
noun an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- an expedition was sent to explore Mars
noun a journey organized for a particular purpose
noun a journey taken for pleasure
sashay; outing; pleasure trip; jaunt; junket; excursion.
- many summer excursions to the shore
- it was merely a pleasure trip
- after cautious sashays into the field
noun the property of being prompt and efficient
despatch; expeditiousness; dispatch.
- it was done with dispatch

L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
Putting it straight in expedition.
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 expedition miserably failed. Prescott.

Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.