1. (

• expedition ,
• military_expedition ,
• hostile_expedition

) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country ;

2. (

• expedition

) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" ;

3. (

• expedition

) a journey organized for a particular purpose ;

4. (

• excursion ,
• jaunt ,
• outing ,
• junket ,
• pleasure_trip ,
• expedition ,
• sashay ,

) a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" ;

5. (

• dispatch ,
• despatch ,
• expedition ,
• expeditiousness

) the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" ;