Expedition

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

II. Expedition ·noun The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

III. Expedition ·noun 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.

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