Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

  2. (countable, uncountable)An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.

    Expedition

    экспеди́цияekspedícija

  3. (countable, uncountable)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 organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

  4. (collective, countable, uncountable)The group of people making such excursion.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.

  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of expediting something; prompt execution.

    the property of being prompt and efficient

Examples

60 sentences
  1. He never returned from that expedition.

    ruОн никогда не вернулся из той экспедиции.

    deEr kehrte nie von dieser Expedition zurück.

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  2. Who was the leader of the expedition?

    ruКто был лидером экспедиции?

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  3. I watched the expedition as it set off.

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  4. He was the leader of the great expedition.

    deEr war der Führer der großen Expedition.

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  5. We're talking about who should lead the expedition.

    deWir sprechen darüber, wer die Expedition leiten sollte.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
An important enterprise, implying a change of place:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
An important enterprise, implying a change of place:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: expeditions
Singularexpedition
Pluralexpeditions

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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