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/ˌɛkspədˈɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
an expedition was sent to explore Mars -
the property of being prompt and efficient
it was done with dispatch - a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
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a journey taken for pleasure
it was merely a pleasure trip
many summer excursions to the shore
after cautious sashays into the field - a journey organized for a particular purpose
How To Use expedition In A Sentence
- These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
- The expedition team successfully erected a new research station at Dome Argus (Dome A), the pole's highest icecap, which is 4,093 meters above sea level. Undefined
- During a quiet moment on the expedition, Emma gazes at the Surrey landscape spread out before her.
- This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
- It is time for our expedition to begin.
- Forty-three members of the expedition were killed.
- The 47th Annual Columbus Day Parade was held in New York city this week starting from October 11 to celebrate the spirit of exploration that inspired Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition.
- They encountered serious problems when two members of the expedition were injured.
- I felt like a gleeful kid after a particularly lucrative Halloween expedition, and enacted the self-same rituals.
- In 1997 they were part of a 20-strong all-woman expedition which reached the North Pole in relays - a 600-mile marathon which was a first for an all-woman team.