expedition

About 13.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
2. noun An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
3. noun A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.

   a naval expedition

4. noun The group of people making such excursion.
5. noun The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
6. noun The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
7. noun The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
8. verb To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.

Similar words

expeditiousness dispatch jaunt outing excursion pleasure trip junket sashay hostile expedition military expedition

Often followed by

to of against was in and into had which

Word family

expeditioner expeditioners expeditions