Synonyms:
expedition, military_expedition, hostile_expedition
Meaning: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
Synonyms:
expedition
Meaning: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars"
Synonyms:
expedition
Meaning: a journey organized for a particular purpose
Synonyms:
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure_trip, expedition, sashay
Meaning: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
Usage examples
But there are many in an expedition.
The expedition promises to be fruitful.
But this story is not about that expedition.
Kit then joined his second trapping expedition.
The punitive expedition into Mexico was a case in point.
All the events would have favored an expedition of this kind.
Our second expedition was appointed for the following Saturday.
If there's no other expedition'll tempt you, why not Port Royal?
Then we can leave a sort of map on board--for that relief expedition."
And from this expedition we may infer the character of earlier enterprises.