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  Words related to expedition

Related / Similar Words: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, sashay, military expedition, hostile expedition, dispatch, despatch, expeditiousness

 

Definition:
  • a journey organized for a particular purpose;
  • a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field";
  • a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country;
  • the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch";
  • an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars";

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    Hyponyms: scouting trip, campaign, hunting expedition, safari, exploration, geographic expedition, airing, field trip, Crusade, Lewis and Clark Expedition

     

    Derivational Morphology: junket, travel, trip, jaunt, dispatch

     
     
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