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expedition

noun
/ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/UK

Etymology

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

  1. derived from expeditio
  2. derived from expédition

Definitions

  1. The act of expediting something

    The act of expediting something; prompt execution.

    • My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to follow him.

  2. A military journey

    A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

  3. The quality of being expedite

    The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

    • one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].
    • he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
    • He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.

    2. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific…

      A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.

      • a naval expedition
      • a scientific expedition
      • an expedition across the Alps

    3. The group of people making such excursion.

    4. The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.

    5. To take part in a trip or expedition

      To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.

      • The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.
      • I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company. These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.

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Derived

DX-pedition, DXpedition, expeditionary, expeditionist, fishing expedition, sexpedition

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expedition. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expedition. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at expedition

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA